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A celebration was held Sunday at the regional training academy on Fairmount Road.

THE Senate on Monday confirmed the appointment of Juan Aguon Pua as the new commissioner of the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services.

The department usually has eight ambulances, but it was down to four before Louisville Metro EMS stepped up to help.

Hamilton Paramedic Service’s Michael Sanderson says a 78 per cent decrease in code zero events is due to recent funding help from the Ministry of Health and the City of Hamilton.

Hamilton Paramedic Service's Michael Sanderson says a 78 per cent decrease in code zero events is due to recent funding help from the Ministry of Health and the City of Hamilton.

GOVERNOR Arnold I. Palacios on Tuesday appointed Assistant Fire Chief Juan A. Pua as commissioner of the Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services. The appointment requires Senate approval.

Wednesday or thursday morning and according to them, it may scoot along the coast and not hit landfall, but still were expecting and to expect heavy rainfall, perhaps ten inches or more, and plus tropical storm ones, and were preparing for that. >> tell us a little bit about the preparations that youre undergoing. >> yes, maam. first thing were going to do is, were putting our city under a state of emergency effective at 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. that would be this morning, excuse me. and we h...

People back into their homes and businesses. first, he wants to bring out and engineer to see if the roads have been undermined. you have about 175 people here that have been displaced. craig, missouri, has a new problem. overnight, the swollen waters of the missouri river breached the levee. the flood water poured in over the berms. emergency crews worked people getting people to safety. the ems chief says he never saw anything like that. >> the water is extremely cold. you can get hypothermia ...

An ambulance is totally unacceptable. >> so, michael, have they been talked to? did you have a chance to talk to them? why didnt they just get out of the truck, out of the ambulance, go to him and carry him over that bridge? >> i havent been able to talk to them at this point. they have been talked to by others, ems chief. were reviewing all the 911 calls, all the radio transmissions and all the phone calls associated with this incident. its taken us time because as you said this incident was ov...

Tracks there. >> reporter: thats right. weve since had others killed. metro workers, just a couple weeks ago. there were two killed as well as they were doing maintenance. so the entire d.c. subway/metro system has been under a microsco microscope. the ntsb has been involved here. and now we have another serious derailment. in the words of the ems chief, again, hoping we dont have any injuries or fatalities. >> all right. thank you very much, tom costello. well get our audience more information ...