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Volunteers named to city committees By Sue Stafford Large numbers of local volunteers will help guide Sisters into the future. A record number of volunteers turned out in November to fill positions on City boards and commissions, with terms beginning on January 1, 2021. The interested residents all filled out City applications and participated in Zoom interviews with several City councilors and City staff before the final selections were made. Council President Nancy Connolly told The Nugget, “I believe the people we selected are a fair representation of the community.” Sh...

Structure itself or an aftershock. so the survivability profile really starts to shrink after about 48 hours. and the risks to rescuers increase with every passing hour, really, and with every aftershock. >> how concerned are you, chuck, that this building, this school, might suffer additional collapse? >> you know, not knowing the construction of the structure initially, it's really kind of difficult to say. but once any structures, bones if you will, have been compromised, than anything really is possible. the structural integrity is gone and it's really just being held up by its broken piec...

Ers that when the time comes they have to get the job done? >> so it's very specialized very intense training that's very different from standard fire fighting practices or even structural collapse necessarily in the settings we may see it here in the united states and elsewhere. the earthquake is a game changer. so the methodologies that go into making those very small spaces safe for both rescuers and the viable trapped person to, a, get to them, give them some initial medical streemt tr and safely get them out. >> all right. chuck ryan, thank you so much for coming on. >> yes, pamela. good ...