The third priority is to provide plans to expand capacity for hospital patient care and ensure a system that emergency calls for service are adequately responded to by emergency medical services, fire departments, and law enforcement agencies, regardless of the jurisdiction in Calhoun County. This helps us anticipate the surge of patients and how it will affect the hospital and EMS system so that we are able to assist with needed resources”. Planning Section Chief Randy Childs, and Assistant Chief of Jacksonville Fire Department, stated, “We use modeling to incorporate the best available data on the virus, comparing control strategies, and identifying important areas of uncertainty. The second priority of modeling and data, focuses on collecting specific details that may serve as critical indictors of the incident, and help provide accurate information to the first responders, healthcare workers, unified commanders, and elected officials for decision making. With the extra worry and the stress of COVID, on top of an already hazardous job, you have to take care of yourself if you Incident Safety Officer and Oxford Fire Chief, Gary Sparks, stated, “Offering peer support is the biggest part we can help with. The initiatives in this area include housing for first responders and healthcare workers who may become symptomatic, require testing, and need to be isolated, offering peer support and specific mental health resources, and ensuring sure the first responders and healthcare workers are properly supplied with and are wearing PPE. The first priority is to take care of those heroes who give their lives to take care of others. ![]() ![]() Office: 25 Cell: 25 Email: COUNTY UNIFIED COMMAND ESTABLISHES INCIDENT PRIORITIESĬalhoun County, Alabama – The Calhoun County COVID Unified Command System has established guiding incident priorities to help lead the response to the increasing coronavirus pandemic in Calhoun County. The initial response priorities set forth by the Unified Incident Commanders are:ġ) First Responder / Healthcare Worker Health, Safety, and Support Thousands lit candles and left flowers near the shooting site in Belgrade, in an outpouring of sadness and solidarity.Myles Chamblee, Public Information Officer While the country struggled to come to terms with what happened, authorities promised a gun crackdown and said they would boost security in schools. One girl collapsed during the service amid screams and sobbing. Overwhelmed by grief, the girl’s mother could barely stand. A day later, a 20-year-old man opened fire randomly in two villages in central Serbia, killing eight people.Ĭlassmates and hundreds of other people cried inconsolably as one of the girls killed in the school shooting was laid to rest in Belgrade in a small white coffin that was covered with heaps of flowers. The shooter on Wednesday was a 13-year-old boy who opened fire on his fellow students, killing seven girls, a boy and a school guard. The most recent previous mass shooting was in 2013 when a war veteran killed 13 people. ![]() Though Serbia is awash with weapons and no stranger to crisis situations following the wars of the 1990s, a school shooting like the one on Wednesday has never happened before. ![]() The shootings on Wednesday in a school in Belgrade and on Thursday in a rural area south of the capital city have left the nation stunned with grief and disbelief. BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Heart-wrenching cries echoed as funerals were held in Serbia on Saturday for some of the victims of two mass shootings that happened just a day apart this week, leaving 17 people dead and 21 wounded, many of them children.
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