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
Get to ultimately decide. The seven justices on the California Supreme Court will settle that debate. Ahead of the hearing today, an uber spokesperson warned in a statement that a change to prop 22 would affect, quote, millions of californians who would see Major Service reductions and Cost Increases or lose ridesharing and food delivery entirely. We are confident that the Supreme Court will listen to the will of california voters and uphold prop 22, end quote i dont believe it was okay for the voters to experts say the California Supreme Court could split the difference. It could be something in between. Perhaps the California Supreme Court will take out the most controversial parts of the legislation, and let the rest of it stand. One of the most controversial parts of prop 22 was cutting gig workers out of the states Workers Compensation program, limiting their protections if they get hurt on the job, the california state Supreme Court must issue a decision on this in the next 90 da
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
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