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ZD Net
In mid-April, Westport, CT, police announced they would be testing the first ever series of US "pandemic drone" flight tests in the town, which was a significant hotspot, to identify social distancing and detect symptoms of the COVID-19 virus. Two days later, the department backed out.
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Métro
Depuis le 13 mars, les paramédics d’Urgences-Santé ont transporté plus de 8 200 personnes pour des cas potentiels de la COVID-19. Cela correspond à 40% des transports effectués chaque jour. Après une période d’accalmie dans les semaines qui ont suivi le déclenchement des mesures d’urgence sanitaire, les paramédics de la région métropolitaine constatent une plus grande demande pour leurs services.
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Peace Arch News
A made-in-Surrey silver pendant has been crafted as a thank-you to first responders, with proceeds to charity.
Jeweler Guaica Rodriguez and his team at two Jewellery Clinic shops in Surrey designed the unisex medal with space for a name of the customer’s choice on the back side.
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Truck News
Transport Canada is exploring ways that electronic documents could be used when shipping dangerous goods, and it’s asking shippers, carriers, first responders, and enforcement personnel to help gather related insights.
But a virtual meeting with first responders has been postponed in the midst of Covid-19. It had been scheduled for this month.
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Windsor Star
Police, paramedics, firefighters, and other first responders in Windsor-Essex now have a place to turn online if they need help with their mental health.
The Windsor-Essex County branch of the Canadian Mental Health Association has announced the launch of WeHelpFirst.ca — a website meant to be a “go-to” first stop on mental health, specifically for people in the region who work as first responders.
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The Advocate
Doug Dort has seen more tragedy and heartache than he could ever recall. As a fire fighter and an emergency medical technician of 46 years, it is a part of his life. But he has never seen tragedy on as large a scale as on Saturday, May 9, 1992 — the day 26 miners lost their lives in an explosion at the Westray coal mine in Plymouth.
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Winnipeg Free Press
The Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service says an investigation about whether a firefighter retirement party violated COVID-19 health orders is now over, though some believe the probe is still underway.
On April 27, the WFPS confirmed it was investigating an allegation that a group of firefighters attended a gathering at Station 1 and failed to follow social distancing rules.
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La Voix Du Sud
Parmi les belles histoires survenue au cours de la pandémie du Covid-19, il faudra retenir celle de Raymond Simard de Sainte-Claire. Après avoir pris sa retraite à titre d’ambulancier, M. Simard est de retour sur le terrain, cette fois-ci dans un CHSLD de la région de Montréal.
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CBC News
June Jacobs says she watched her 35-year-old son having a seizure on the family's living room floor for 10 minutes while paramedics stepped outside to change into gear designed to protect them from COVID-19.
James Jacobs died five minutes after paramedics returned into the home, June said in an interview.
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BBC News
Peter Hart worked in a hospital and for an ambulance service in Sussex and Surrey.
Colleagues said he was dedicated to caring for patients and would even bring his therapy dog to the hospital in his own time. "Pete has touched so many people's lives, spreading his joy and kindness wherever he went," his family said.
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PaNOW
Lakeland Ford in Prince Albert has donated 200 face shields to Parkland Ambulance paramedics as part of a national initiative by Ford Canada.
Dealers around the country identified organizations they thought could do with the help.
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Guelph Mercury Tribune
With the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have had to step up to new roles, and take on new responsibilities.
And after the provincial government mandated all long-term care home residents and staff needed to be tested for the coronavirus, it was the paramedics who had to take the helm.
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PaNOW
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced changes to nearly every part of day to day life.
For those working on the frontlines against the virus, like paramedics and other emergency service workers, the conditions have added another challenge to the job.
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Kenora Online
Paramedics with Ornge are benefitting from a shipment of personal protective equipment, which came from a campaign endorsed by Canadian movie star Ryan Reynolds and hockey great Hayley Wickenheiser.
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The Review
Friends of a local paramedic who recently lost her home to fire are raising money to help her get by during an already-difficult time.
In the early hours of April 28, Manon Diotte’s home was totally destroyed by fire. She is a paramedic with the United Counties of Prescott and Russell Emergency Services Department and recently became a community paramedic.
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Strathroy Age Dispatch
Southwestern Ontario’s only pediatric ambulance will now be staffed 24-7, thanks to $1.3 million in new provincial funding, Middlesex-London Paramedic Service says.
Larger than a regular ambulance, the pediatric and neonatal ambulance — one of only five across Ontario — is specially equipped to transport critically ill infants, including from hospitals across the region to intensive care at London’s Children’s Hospital.
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Mexico News Daily
Two men attacked a volunteer Red Cross paramedic in Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero, Wednesday morning after accusing him of spreading the coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
Mario Alberto Montiel Flores was returning to his home after a 24-hour shift at the local Red Cross medical center when two still unidentified men attacked him.
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The Chronicle Herald
Paramedics across the province are being asked to keep used bag valve masks because there could be shortage of the respiratory medical equipment in the near future.
The Cape Breton Post has obtained a copy of an equipment advisory email by Emergency Health Services system support requesting paramedics no longer throw bag valve masks out and instructing how to prepare them for recycling.
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Kitchener Today
A Region of Waterloo paramedic killed in a motorcycle crash over the weekend is set to be remembered.
The family of 27-year old Steven Rabak will hold a visitation Saturday, May 9 from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at the Henry Walser Funeral Home on Frederick Street in Kitchener.
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Times Colonist
Paramedic Christopher Fell was enjoying a Mother’s Day dinner with his parents at their waterfront home in Sidney on Sunday afternoon when he heard an explosion and cries for help coming from the direction of North Saanich Marina.
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