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California | San Diego County – New disaster plan focused on people with...
A disaster planning template released Thursday is a step-by-step guide to help San Diegans with medical, mobility, speech, or cognitive needs get ready for emergencies. The County Office of Emergency...
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California | Life and death calls all in a day’s work for San Diego County...
Dispatcher Benny Hernandez takes a Sheriff’s radio call. Photo courtesy of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. When Benny Hernandez was hired by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department to...
View ArticleCalifornia | Number of whooping cough cases approaching 300 in San Diego County
San Diego County continues to experience a high level of pertussis (whooping cough) activity, with a nearly six-fold increase in the number of cases to date in 2014 versus this point last year...
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California | San Diego County CERT volunteers search for victims in disaster...
CERT members practice “cribbing,” which is how to remove hazards or stabilize an environment under the guidance of Firefighter Paramedic Josh Gordon and North County CERT member Dewey Knox, both at...
View ArticleCalifornia | San Diego County Animal Services rescues dozens of animals from...
Nearly all the animals rescued by the County Department of Animal Services during the recent wildfires are back home with their owners. Animal Services rescued more than 50 animals when fires broke out...
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California | San Diego County pertussis cases nearly double 2013 total
Seven new cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, reported this week where the public may have been exposed brings San Diego County to nearly double the number of cases reported in all of...
View ArticleCalifornia | May 2014 San Diego County wildfires report presented to Board of...
Hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency upgrades made over the past decade helped to minimize losses in last month’s devastating wildfires and enable a successful response by the County of San...
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California | San Diego County trauma system driving deaths down
Thirty years ago, the rate of preventable trauma deaths in San Diego County was 21 percent. Today, the figure is less than one percent. What is helping to save so many lives? The San Diego County...
View ArticleCA | San Marcos – Cat tests positive for tularemia
A pet cat from a home in San Marcos has tested positive for tularemia — “rabbit fever” — a potentially dangerous bacterial disease that people can contract by being bitten by infected ticks or from...
View ArticleCA | Nearly 900 pertussis cases to date in San Diego County
Pertussis (whooping cough) cases in San Diego County number nearly 900 for the year according to the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency. Nine new cases of the disease were confirmed this...
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California | San Diego County – Dogs & divers team up for search training
A team of 15 volunteers form the Sheriff’s Dive Team, coming from diverse backgrounds like the military, medicine, law, engineering, information technology, security and firefighting. They’re all...
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California | Squirrels test positive for plague in the Palomar Mountain area
County officials are reminding people to protect themselves when they hike and camp after two squirrels trapped in routine monitoring in the Palomar Mountain area tested positive for plague. County...
View ArticleCalifornia | Cases of EV-D68 confirmed in San Diego and Ventura counties
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has confirmed 4 enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) cases in patients in San Diego (3) and Ventura (1) counties it was announced today by Dr. Ron Chapman, CDPH...
View ArticleCalifornia | Runner potentially exposed to rabies at Del Mar Mud Run
The County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) is asking for the public’s help in identifying an individual who may have been exposed to rabies during the Del Mar Mud Run at the Del...
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California | Countdown to ShakeOut Drill
Does everyone in your family know to drop, cover and hold on during an earthquake? And do you all practice at least once a year? Do you know how to safeguard your home for earthquakes? Do you have a...
View ArticleCalifornia | 10 confirmed measles cases reported in San Diego County
San Diego County now has 10 confirmed cases of measles among the growing number of California residents associated with the Disneyland outbreak first reported earlier this week. Seven new cases were...
View ArticleCalifornia | Two more flu deaths reported in San Diego County
Two more people died from complications due to influenza, bringing the total to four this flu season, the San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) announced today. One was an...
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California | Two mice test positive for hantavirus in San Diego County
County environmental health officials are reminding people to be careful whenever they find signs of rodents living in homes, sheds and garages after two western harvest mice tested positive for the...
View ArticleCalifornia | 14 more flu deaths reported in San Diego County as season’s toll...
The County Health and Human Services Agency today announced 14 more San Diegans died from complications from the flu. “Between late January and early February is typically the peak period of the local...
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California | San Diego County’s ME office reports new drugs are killing...
Iain McIntyre, forensic toxicology laboratory manager for the Medical Examiner’s Office. examines a chemical compound. Last November, a 24-year-old San Diego County man bought and injected what he...
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California | AKC donates three disaster supply trailers to San Diego County’s...
In a first for the state of California, the American Kennel Club (AKC) donated three disaster supply trailers for pets to County Animal Services during a presentation Saturday at the Del Mar...
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California | San Diego County schools adopt disaster lessons
OES Director Holly Crawford talks natural disasters with fifth-graders at Benchley-Weinberger Elementary. Fifth grade students at a San Carlos elementary school have just started learning about the...
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California | First 2015 detection of new invasive mosquito – Aedes aegypti
County of San Diego environmental health officials have confirmed the discovery of another Aedes aegypti mosquito, a day-feeding invader that can carry serious diseases and was found here for the...
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California #CA | San Diego County’s coastal communities roll out tailored...
If a tsunami were to threaten the San Diego coast, San Diego’s 10 coastal cities and U.S. Naval installations could refer to new tsunami response “playbooks” that include tailored, phased evacuation...
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California #CA | Rabid bat found at San Diego Zoo Safari Park
The County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency is reporting that a bat found at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park has tested positive for rabies. The bat was found dead on March 25 at 4:30 p.m....
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