To transfer. The patient to the hospital, the situation becomes worse and the number of available ambulances gets reduced. This isnt a new thing. This has happened periodically over the years and its not unique to contra costa. Since september, the number of ambulances has increased from 54 to 72 per day, but Officials Say theyve received 240 calls for an ambulance this year alone. More than two thirds of them needed serious advanced medical attention, and paramedics are hard to hire and keep. We are putting up to a dozen firefighter emts through Paramedic School and then our subcontractor, amr, is also putting many of their emts who want to become paramedics through this Paramedic School, hospitals are overburdened and understaffed with hospital wait times for ambulances up to an hour at places like contra costa regional and john muir, walnut creek. We have seen some success with sutter delta in antioch, who has reduced their ambulance patient offload time in the last 12 months by a f
Ten year old boy accused of murder following a deadly stabbing at an east bay safeway, definitely surprised, especially with the crime of this magnitude that the suspect is someone of such a young age. Its not something that you see every day and the young suspect arrested at his middle school. Good evening everyone. Im mike mibach and im julie julie haener. The deadly stabbing happened last month at a Safeway Store in san leandro. The victim, just 18 years old, new at ten. Tonight, ktvu is amber lee joins us now. Shes at San Leandro Police department with the latest developments. Amber julie. Police tell me that this deadly stabbing started as a dispute between two groups of teenagers and that there is no evidence that they knew each other prior to this incident. Police say 18 year old zion gooden was stabbed and killed inside this Safeway Store on bancroft avenue in san leandro. Lieutenant abe tang tells me a 13 year old stabbed gooden in the arm and chest. April second around 515 in
Violence directed gun violence directed at our police officers. Ive been doing this a very long time. Ive never seen us San Jose Police officers take so much gunfire in such a short period of time. Apartment complex residents called 911, which brought a swarm of police officers. Neighbor jorge chavez used his cell phone to show officers converging on the van after the initial shooting. We hear a gunshot, and we. At first we thought it was like a firecracker, but we didnt think much of it. And later we hear like two more gunshots. And then thats when i looked out to the kitchen window and i saw there was like a van with broken windows. Villarreal was eventually cornered by three officers, all three on the force. Three and a half years. Four years and four and a half years fired, hitting and dropping the suspect. This apartment complex was filled with people enjoying a warm sunday evening. Families, friends and children were safe one minute and the next in grave danger. What they did nex
Served time for assault on a Police Officer is identified as the suspect who fired at police over the weekend in a san jose neighborhood. Plus, theres also a continuum of collaboration that needs to happen, so that we have a resilient system in this county. Increasing concerns over a lack of ambulances and emergency resources. Officials in Contra Costa County tonight, looking for ways to address the issue. This is ktvu, fox two news at 730. Ambulance service challenges that only seem to be getting worse. Thanks so much for joining me on this monday night. Im heather holmes, contra costa fire says they are at a crisis point. Our crystal bailey is here now with more on the situation and possible solutions. Crystal. Well heather hospital wait times for ambulances in Contra Costa County are far above the state standard of 20 minutes, and the issue is not new and its not unique to Contra Costa County. Its my personal opinion that that Emergency Medical Services ems in this state needs a sig
Work crews at the University of San Francisco removed the remaining tents Monday belonging to a pro-Palestinian group, angering protesters who say some of those tents were still being used.