Seguin, TX, USA / Seguin Today
Dec 16, 2020 12:02 AM
(Seguin) Guadalupe County continues to keep a close on the rising COVID-19 cases in the area. Patrick Pinder, the Guadalupe County emergency management coordinator assigned to the county’s COVID-19 response, shared the latest numbers during Tuesday’s meeting of the Guadalupe County Commissioners Court.
“We have 202 confirmed active cases in the county; 126 probable active cases in the county; 750 probable recovered cases in the county. We have 4, 714 people who have recovered. We have 47 deaths reported in Guadalupe County. We have 5,839 cases total reported in the county and we have 110 to be determined. GRMC notified me this morning (Tuesday) that they have 24 patients in the hospital. Last week, on Thursday, they had 18. (Monday), they had 28. Today, (Tuesday), they are at 24 so you can see that the number has kind of gone up and it’s going down a little bit. Their seven day average is 23 as of this morning (Tuesday
Guadalupe County commissioners are asking fireworks vendors and users to avoid the use of certain pyrotechnics during the upcoming holiday season due to dry conditions.
While some precipitation fell in recent days, things have been fairly dry around the county, but not dry enough for commissioners to place a ban on flying fireworks with âsticks and fins.â
âWe do not meet the threshold to ban aerial fireworks, being fire sticks and fins,â Bryce Houlton, the countyâs assistant fire marshal, told the court Thursday morning at a specially-called meeting.
Lack of significant rainfall had the commissioners court members eyeing a plan to limit the sale and use of flying fireworks in order to limit grass fires and other possible destructive mishaps related to the pyrotechnics. Commissioners discussed the measure at a prior meeting, but needed more direction as to what they legally could do and at what threshold of the Keetch-Byram Drought Index â the instrume