Fiery Pileup Shuts I-44 in OKC as Winter Storm Uri Makes Travel Hazardous; Knocks Out Power to Tens of Thousands
The Weather Channel 2/15/2021 Ron Brackett
Interstate 44, the Turner Turnpike, was forced to shut down Sunday afternoon in both directions in east Oklahoma City because of a pileup involving multiple vehicles caused by the ice and snow unleashed by Winter Storm Uri.
The Oklahoma Highway Patrol reported that two semitrailer tractors, an SUV and another vehicle were involved and that two of the semis caught fire. Several people were taken to the hospital, a reporter for KOKH tweeted.
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Northbound I-35 was closed at the 225 mile marker because of to a collision.
After almost two weeks in the hospital battling COVID-19, Gerardo Mercado was ready to go home. There was just one problem: He couldn’t get portable oxygen cylinders to aid his recovery there.
Southern California hospitals are struggling to get enough lifesaving oxygen to patients as they weather the COVID-19 surge, revealing infrastructure problems at old buildings and a supply-chain backlog with critical consequences.
“Our hospitals have never experienced this kind of strain on the oxygen supply chain,” said Adam Blackstone, vice president of external affairs and strategic communications with the Hospital Assn. of Southern California, which represents 180 hospitals.
COVID-19 hospitalization rates in L.A. County have come down from their alarming highs of two weeks ago, improving the oxygen pipeline to hospitals. But hospital administrators and medical suppliers say problems with refill and delivery of oxygen tanks are still hampering the medical response.
Jan 10, 2021
FILE â In this April 18, 2020 file photo partitions are installed between beds as work is performed to turn Sleep Train Arena into a 400-bed emergency field hospital to help deal with the coronavirus, in Sacramento, Calif. The state has reopened the arena and other facilities to help handle a new surge of coronavirus patients, but is using little more than a handful of volunteers from Gov. Gavin Newsom s California Health Corps who originally helped staff the facility. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) California desperately needs more medical workers at facilities swamped by coronavirus patients, but almost no help is coming from a volunteer program that Gov. Gavin Newsom created at the start of the pandemic. An army of 95,000 initially raised their hands, and just 14 are now working in the field.
California desperately needs more medical workers at facilities swamped by coronavirus patients, but almost no help is coming from a volunteer program that Gov. Gavin Newsom created at the start of the pandemic.