Emergency Response

President Joe Biden met with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday to tour the destruction a week after Hurricane Ian barreled across the state.

President Joe Biden declared a major disaster in Florida early Thursday, opening federal funding to help with recovery efforts after Hurricane Ian slammed the state.

Falck, the city of San Diego’s emergency medical transport service provider, told the union that represents paramedics it will require employees to work overtime in an effort to speed up slow response times.

Falk emergency response employees will be forced to work overtime to make up for the company’s slow response times. NBC 7’s Omari Fleming ahs the story.

When emergencies happen, seconds matter. We pay a lot of attention to how quickly ambulances get to the scene of an emergency, but picking up the patient is only half of the picture. The other half is what happens once that patient gets to a hospital.

NBC 7 Investigates discovered the trip from the parking lot into the emergency room can take hours. In some extreme cases, it’s taking more than two hours to transfer the care of a patient. Despite a wide awareness of the problem, lawmakers, ambulance providers and hospitals can’t seem to agree on a solution.

The patients were found near the Mission Bay Aquatic Center, officials said

With new coronavirus cases surging across the state, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration on Saturday proposed spending another $2.7 billion to expand testing and boost hospital staffing, while calling for a new law to give workers more paid time off if they get sick. California had more than 10,100 people hospitalized with the coronavirus on Friday, or about half of…