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This comes as cities like Austin, El Paso, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston are all out of the monoclonal antibody that is most effective against omicron.

Firefighters extinguished a structure fire that apparently started in the fireplace of a Laguna Beach home on Dec. 29.

Michael Kimble was appointed the new Chief of the Baton Rouge Fire Department.  Kimble has worked as a first responder in East Baton Rouge since 2001, having served for both the BRFD and the Zachary Fire Department as a firefighter, investigator and volunteer deputy chief.

Michael Kimble was appointed the new Chief of the Baton Rouge Fire Department.  Kimble has worked as a first responder in East Baton Rouge since 2001, having served for both the BRFD and the Zachary Fire Department as a firefighter, investigator and volunteer deputy chief.

Assist communities and building out a plan but right now, we have people that are on the way in who specialize in incident command, volunteer management, saw work as our team today, we have other additional assets coming in as well as regional and national assets from around the country that are coming in to assist this community. >> reporter: and have you spoken to any of the residents, just about the horror of what they lived through in this new reality theyre facing today? >> we spoke with a ...

Posted for all outlets. >> reporter: i have a question for chief howard. chief, what did the first responders see, [ inaudible ]? >> it was just -- i guess for lack of a better -- just carnage, likening it to a war zone. there were adults, children that were injured. some of our first responders were there with their families, they left their families to treat people, helped with incident command, helped transport, along with many other medical personnel and people that were there. but i guess w...

Carnage. liking it to a war zone. there were adults, children that were injured. some of our first responders were there with their families, they left their families to treat people, helped with incident command, helped transport, along with many other medical personnel and people that were there. but i guess what stands out in my mind from our conversations is that we do have people who have military backgrounds and likened to it a war zone. >> ill get two more questions. ill go back right the...

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Something like this would have happened? >> caller: heres the thing, the promoter was the one who hires the security, the promoter that they provided the medical component. they actually had a field hospital of sorts present there on scene. so they took care of all that, all those aspects. the police department, houston fire department were there, again just in anticipation. this was -- it was 50,000 people that we were expecting. so we pre-deployed resources, incident command teams to that loca...

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