Daily Briefing

Four Corners flooding still running into the weekend as new rescues and more rain are reported

By The FirstResponders Desk

Good morning. Lead item. The National Weather Service office in Albuquerque has Flood Warnings in effect for San Juan County, New Mexico, and the office in Grand Junction has a Flood Warning for Archuleta County, Colorado — all rated severe. NPR reports intense rainfall slammed the Four Corners region late this week, that rivers flooded, and that towns declared evacuations and emergencies and made rescues. NBC News reports catastrophic flooding in the Four Corners prompted new rescues with more rain on the way, and that it says millions are on alert for high tides on both coasts. If you are working the West this shift, treat this as an incident still in progress: the warnings are current, not a recap.

Fire. Satellite systems reported fire detections over eight states on the day — Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Missouri, Tennessee, South Carolina and Arkansas — and none of these detections is confirmed by any agency. Treat them as leads to verify against your own dispatch, not as incidents. Separately, Firefighter Close Calls reports that a 35-year-old member of the St Lucie County Fire District in Florida was found unresponsive in his bunk in cardiac arrest in quarters this morning, was worked by his crew and transported, and died. We are not naming him; no agency has confirmed next-of-kin notification to us.

EMS. The Florida firefighter's death above is the day's EMS-relevant item; the firefighter's own crew ran the arrest.

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