Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox Announces Bid For Fifth Term - Tuscaloosa, AL - Tuscaloosa Mayor Walt Maddox this week announced he will seek another term as the city's mayor in the municipal election in March.
Mayor Maddox told city councilors things have stabilized, somewhat, when it comes to city workers being off the job due to coronavirus, but resources remain stretched.
Every Tuscaloosa Fire Rescue engine and ladder truck will soon be furnished with advanced life support equipment, including cardiac monitors, defibrillators and automated CPR devices, thanks to roughly $1.4 million worth of funding.
The equipment, which is largely funded by grants and other funding outside of the city s general fund, will increase the chances of survival for sudden cardiac arrest cases and other medical emergencies, city officials said Monday.
“I hope that myself nor anyone in my family (has to use) any of these pieces of equipment, said Mayor Walt Maddox during a Monday afternoon news conference. But as a citizen of Tuscaloosa, it gives me great comfort to know that if my child is at the bottom of a swimming pool, or my father or mother has a stroke or a heart attack, if something catastrophic happens anywhere in our city, that the men and women of Tuscaloosa Fire and Rescue are not only going to be there with a very quick and effective response, they�
UpdatedTue, Dec 22, 2020 at 8:38 pm CT
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Tuscaloosa City Hall (Ryan Phillips, Tuscaloosa Patch)
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. Days ahead of Christmas, Tuscaloosa County topped a couple of dreaded records over the previous week, recording more deaths and new coronavirus cases in a single week than any other point in the pandemic. While officials say the situation for DCH Health System remains manageable, worries persist when looking at what the coming weeks may bring as the Christmas and New Year s holidays usher in the return of University of Alabama students to campus for the spring semester in January.
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Tuscaloosa County reports a cumulative case total of 17,063 identified since March, which includes 5,108 classified as probable. The county also saw its 7-day average for new cases per day rise to 127.29 a new record.
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A demonstration was given of the Lucas 3 automated CPR device (Ryan Phillips, Tuscaloosa Patch)
TUSCALOOSA, AL. Tuscaloosa Fire Rescue (TFR) will be better equipped to save lives going into the new year as it implements the latest in new advanced life support technology in its vehicles. The city hopes the new equipment will provide another valuable tool to its first responders, as many firefighters are paramedics and capable of on-scene treatment.
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