A fight for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder coverage years in the making has ended with a win for Cleveland paramedics, EMTs and dispatchers. A union contract for Cleveland EMS just passed, including about $3.7 million in back pay for employees and mental health language, addressing PTSD. CARE has been negotiating their contract since March of 2016.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WOIO-TV CBS 19 Cleveland

There are many statistics available regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, although they aren’t necessarily well coordinated at the national level. With so many numbers being available, it can be difficult to understand what they mean, how they work together, and how to apply them. However, experts say a more unified, national approach is essential in getting the pandemic under control.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Healthline

San Antonio firefighters handled a crash of their own on Sunday. One of the department’s fire trucks rolled down the street with no one inside and firefighters chased it down in hot pursuit. The incident happened on Stafford Street near Fire Station 5. A fire official said they’d parked the truck at New Braunfels and Stafford when the truck started rolling down Stafford.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KSAT-TV ABC 12 San Antonio

VIDEO: Wildlife officers and firefighters managed to come up with a solution after a bear fell asleep in a tree after being tranquilized. Colorado Parks and Wildlife first responded to a home on Alameda Parkway and Bear Creek Road at 9 a.m. on Saturday for a call about a bear in a tree. Twelve hours later, the 350 lb.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KCNC-TV CBS 4 Denver

Six people were injured -- four of them critically -- as people jumped from the third story to escape flames burning through their building in Seattle early Monday morning. 911 dispatchers received multiple calls for the fire that broke out in the 2400 block of Aurora Ave. North just before 5 a.m., according to Seattle Fire.
- PUB DATE: 7/13/2020 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: KOMO-TV ABC 4 and Radio 1000 Seattle