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Fire Dept. EMS Help Deployed to Besieged Calif. Hospitals


The Press Democrat, Santa Rosa, Calif.
California firefighters sent across the state to battle wildfires are now being deployed through the same mutual aid system to work at hospitals struggling to keep enough staff on duty during the coronavirus pandemic.
Petaluma Valley Hospital was among the first four hospitals in the state the only facility in Northern California that received firefighters trained as emergency medical technicians or paramedics this month to help bolster staffing levels as COVID-19 cases skyrocket across the country.
On Wednesday, California officials announced they would deploy more firefighters to work at eight additional hospitals in Southern California, where an enormous surge of COVID-19 patients needing intensive care has led to a crisis at hospitals without the staff, space or equipment to handle all those in need. ....

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California must burn more of its forests to save them. Is the public ready?


California must burn more of its forests to save them. Is the public ready?
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Smoke from a prescribed burn rises above Hambrecht Vineyards in Healdsburg in November.Photos by Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Firefighters from Cal Fire and North Sonoma County crews set a controlled burn in Healdsburg.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Firefighters with a PG&E crew spray down a tree during a controlled, intentional burn in Healdsburg in November.Photos by Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Neighbors Woody Hambrecht (left), Maureen Corcoran, and Maurice LeVois chat during the prescribed burn.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less ....

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