Stories tagged with: Emergency

June 3, 2010 - 5:39pm
2 years 50 weeks ago

When tragedy strikes, hospitals go into overdrive. At Genesis Good Samaritan, they have codes for all types of situations, and yesterday they had to use one of them.

In an effort to bring together as much help as possible, Good Samaritan sends out a page to notify employees of an extreme emergency situation. After the Tri-Valley school bus tragedy yesterday, the plan was enacted.

"We went ahead and implemented our code yellow which is our mass casualty disaster plan which...

February 6, 2010 - 4:24pm
3 years 15 weeks ago


With the heavy overnight snow, the Muskingum County Emergency Management Agency leapt into action Saturday morning to help keep the public safe.

The Deputy Director of the EMA Jeff Jadwin says they first made sure all the main roads were clear so emergency vehicles could get through. But the wide spread power outages were also a worry.

"The big concern that we had this morning was the amount of people that we had without power and it went over 7,000 and...

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