Members of the Business and Labor Committee Monday took testimony on the ‘In the Line of Duty Compensation Act’, a measure that would provide a $50,000 death benefit for a family member or designee of first responders killed in the line of duty Nebraska Professional Firefighter’s Association President Darren Garrean recounted testimony given last year [.]
MARIN, Calif. (KGO) As COVID-19 cases surge, Bay Area firefighters are getting deployed to hospitals across the state.
Bob Craft, a firefighter paramedic from the Central Marin Fire Department is working the nightshift. Two hours into his shift, he intubated a patient in the emergency department who arrived to the hospital with stroke like symptoms and prepped a COVID-19 patient for their flip onto their stomach for the rest of the night. It s the gamut from really regular people coming to the emergency department to people on ventilators on the ICU who are on the COVID ward, said craft.
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FREMONT, CA Fremont firefighters are frequently sent to other parts of the state to battle wildfires as part of California s mutual aid network.
Now the coronavirus pandemic has triggered another type of mutual aid the city is sending four fire paramedics to Bakersfield to help staff hospitals there. The firefighters are part of a California Office of Emergency Services effort to staff medical centers and hospitals during a statewide COVID-19 surge, according to a social media post by the Fremont Fire Department.
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There were 52,636 new coronavirus cases and 695 deaths statewide reported on Saturday and the Bay Area and three other regions around the state remain under a stay-at-home order due to low ICU capacity.