Heavy snow has caused “severe” problems for ambulance services in parts of northern England as they struggle to keep up with high demand.
The Met Office had put in place various yellow warnings across most of the UK for snow and ice which will last throughout Friday and until 9pm on Saturday.
The snow was thickest in Bingley, West Yorkshire, and Strathallan in Perth, Scotland, where 11cm was recorded on Thursday.
Temperatures in parts of north-east England and Scotland may drop as low as minus 10C (14F) overnight into Friday and freezing fog is expected to continue to cause difficulties for travellers.
California Sends Dozens Of Firefighter Paramedics, EMTs To Help Hospitals Inundated With COVID-19 Patients Syndicated Local – CBS Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) As cases of COVID-19 show no signs of abating, the state’s Mutual Aid System is sending fire and rescue paramedics and EMTs to assist in emergency rooms into the hardest-hit hospitals.
The firefighter paramedics and EMT’s will be sent on 14-day deployments to help in emergency rooms and other vital medical areas, primarily in the Southern California area. These firefighters are typically sent out in response to wildfires, floods and other natural disasters.
Olive View Medical Center and Huntington Memorial in Pasadena will each receive seven of these personnel. Nine more will be sent to Mission Community, Providence St. John’s, and Harbor-UCLA medical Center in Los Angeles County and UC Irvine Medical Center in Orange County. Ten more will be sent to the Inland Empire – half to Riverside Coun
Frontline healthcare workers in Tulare County are tired, afraid and at times angry.
Mostly, they re frustrated that some community members haven t been doing their part to help curb the spread of the coronavirus that has exploded over the past month, pushing local hospitals to their breaking points.
That was the message an exasperated group of nurses, doctors and intensivists attempted to hammer through at a Tuesday Tulare County from the Front Lines press conference. Nurses want you to know that they cry at home, and that they re afraid, and that they re frustrated and at times are angry because they know that many of these patients who end up in the hospital did not have to be here, said Dr. Harjoth Malli, an intensive care physician at Kaweah Delta, which was 97% full on Tuesday.