Marion County Fire Rescue workers saved a 1½-year-old girl s life on Monday after she was pulled from a home swimming pool.
MCFR spokesman James Lucas said firefighters were assigned the call at 9:08 a.m. Monday and arrived at 9:11 a.m. The child s mother called 911 immediately after finding her child in the pool.
When firefighters arrived, they performed life saving measures on the toddler. Ocala Fire Rescue firefighters, who also were assigned the call, got to the address along Southwest 60th Avenue at 9:13 a.m.
They assisted their county counterparts, and at 9:15 a.m. the child was transported to West Marion Community Hospital.
Annual workforce conference
• CareerSource Citrus Levy Marion’s 2021 State of Workforce Conference: Recover, Redesign, Rework, will be held online from 8 a.m. to noon April 22. It is presented in partnership with the Ocala Human Resource Management Association. Bringing together businesses, community and public partners, education leaders and HR professionals, the conference identifies ways the region’s businesses may begin to recover from the impacts of the pandemic on the workforce, redesign how the workplace may function moving forward, and rework ways to build the talent pipeline to meet in-demand and emerging needs, CareerSource said in a news release.
Tickets are $25 and available at bit.ly/2021SOTW
Ocala/Marion County business briefs for Dec. 14, 2020
Ocala Star-Banner
The Community Foundation for Ocala/Marion County is accepting applications for the 2021 Angelica G. Muns Scholarship.
The scholarship is available to students pursuing nursing degrees as well as postgraduate nursing students. Applicants must be enrolled in a certified nursing program in Marion County, maintain a 3.0 GPA throughout their duration of schooling, and continue their career in an acute healthcare facility for up to two years.
To apply visit https://www.ocalafoundation.org/impact/#cfgrants
The application deadline is Jan. 4.
COVID-19: Officials say Ocala has plenty of hospital beds despite surge
As COVID-19 cases continue to surge in Marion County, officials said Friday that residents should not fear that area hospitals will run out of beds anytime in the immediate future.
The news comes despite a map produced by the New York Times this week that shows Marion County has been nearing overall hospital capacity in recent days during the pandemic, which has sickened 14 million people nationwide and 1 million in Florida.
More than 97% of all beds at the three main Marion County hospitals, as well as 95% of all ICU beds, were occupied Friday morning. But at least 88% of those patients were hospitalized for ailments other than COVID-19, according to data.