38 Banning residents displaced after fire destroys newly-built temporary homes
A total of 38 people are without a home after a fire tore through a Banning community Saturday afternoon. The fire erupted at about 12:48 p.m. on the 1900 block of E. Ramsey Street. The first engine got on scene and said there was multiple structures on fire, said Riverside County and Calfire Batt. Chief William Otterman.
The community was built in April to house several homeless people, and came to be known as Ramsey Street Village. There’s 20 total pods there and 19 of them were destroyed and 1 was heavily damaged, said Batt. Chief Otterman.
With ICU capacity at 100% across Southern California, hospitals are implementing surge plans to increase capacity. But public health officials say it s not so much a question of having enough bed space, but rather having enough frontline health care workers to care for patients. What we re seeing in the ICUs is we ve got some space, and they re able to move stuff around and free up space, said Shane Reichardt, public information officer for the Riverside County Emergency Management Department. But our staff in the ICU is really low.
At the Riverside University Health Systems Medical Center in Moreno Valley, partitions and curtains have been set up in the hospital to create more ICU bed space. But finding the personnel to care for patients is difficult.
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Storage units being converted to ICU units to make room for patients
MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - As coronavirus cases continue to surge in California, several storage units are being converted into ICU centers to help with the increase of patients.
Health officials in Riverside County say that 90% of their ICU beds and 70% of their licensed beds are taken.
A hospital in Moreno Valley had to get creative to take care of its patients and it s far from ideal.
FOX 11 News got a rare glimpse of the makeshift facility. It was a neo-natal unit before it became storage.
At the Riverside University Health System Hospital, the storage unit is housing 10 ICU beds. Pre-op and post-op recovery rooms are also being converted and children are being transferred to other hospitals, not because the children are sick with COVID-19, but because pediatric beds are the only ones open in the county at this point.