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San Diego Fire Rescue Department Has Developed Plan to Provide Immediate Help to First Responders

The number of migrants hospitalized after falling from the border wall is at a record high, but who picks up the hospital bill? In other news, Oceanside has a new clinic offering mental health care for active duty service members, veterans and their families. Plus, we hear about how The Chicano Park Museum and Cultural Center came to fruition.

Even shift workers who may be active at all hours are best off when they eat only within a 10-hour window.

SAN DIEGO — A fire spread from a garage to a home in San Carlos on Monday afternoon, displacing two residents, San Diego fire officials said. The fire started about 2:20 p.m. and quickly engulfed the garage of the home on Lake Artemus, just west of Lake Murray Boulevard. The fire then spread to the attic of the home, San Diego Fire-Rescue Battalion Chief David Picone told OnScene TV. A neighbor told OnScene TV he and his wife were sitting in their living room when they smelled “a little s...

San Diego Union-Tribune Battalion Chief David Picone remembers the car wreck on Mothers Day some 20 years ago like it was yesterday. Picone, then a paramedic in Riverside County, comforted an uninjured toddler who was in one of the cars involved in the crash, holding the girl in his arms as he looked for her mother. The mom was dead. Years later, the crash remains in Picones memory the same way other traumatic events haunt his colleagues. Along with the "day-in-and-day-out grind," the battalion...