The board this morning

Flood and storm warnings run from Ohio to the Aleutians as Polo hits Category 5 offshore

By The FirstResponders Desk

Good morning. Weather is where your shift will feel the day first. The National Weather Service has flood warnings in force for Pike and Scioto counties in Ohio (NWS Wilmington) and for Calhoun County, Illinois with Pike and Lincoln counties, Missouri (NWS St Louis) — plan for water rescue readiness and route closures in those counties. Far to the northwest, NWS Anchorage has storm warnings up for the Bering side from Kiska to Attu and Adak to Kiska, and for the Bering Sea offshore between 171W and 180 north of 56N.

Offshore, Cleveland.com reports Hurricane Polo has become an "extremely dangerous" Category 5 with another hurricane forming behind it. The Los Angeles Times, citing the National Hurricane Center, reports Polo is expected to bring heavy rain to southwestern Mexico with limited impacts to California — watch the coast, but the NHC does not have a major California hit on the board.

Fire: reports of a disaster striking crews helping battle a growing Yosemite wildfire in California are circulating but are not confirmed by any agency. Likewise, satellite fire detections reported across the South — 72 over Mississippi, 64 over Louisiana, 44 over Arkansas, 32 over South Carolina and 27 over Tennessee — are unconfirmed by any agency and are detections, not confirmed incidents. Treat them as tasking to verify, not as active scenes.

EMS: a South Carolina coroner's office has ruled that an actress died from an accidental fentanyl overdose mixed with several other drugs, with no signs of trauma (CBS News, NBC News, The Washington Post and The Guardian). It is a reminder of the fentanyl-plus-polydrug pattern; follow your own local protocol.

Law enforcement: New York police say a 17-year-old and his 37-year-old mother were each shot in the right leg in an apparently targeted attack at a Bronx laundromat (New York Post). NJ.com reports a driver was charged after a crash killed a pedestrian on a New Jersey highway (police). SFGATE reports Ventura County deputies found a married couple dead at a Southern California home after a family welfare-check request (sheriff). The Oregonian reports a trial is under way over a Portland knife standoff with police, and Fox News reports a murder charge was dropped in a Missouri infant-injury case.

Dispatch and workforce: NPR reports employees at privately run Tennessee juvenile facilities were allegedly discouraged from calling 911 to report suspected abuse — a warning sign for anyone who takes those calls. Government Executive reports the FAA administrator is defending withholding part of an air traffic controller pay raise amid an already overstretched workforce.

What to watch: the Ohio, Illinois and Missouri flood warnings for crest timing, the Aleutian storm warnings for marine tasking, and Polo's track for any late shift toward California.