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Are Emergency responders okay? Budgets struggle as disasters mount.

By September 15, 2024No Comments

Climate change has rewritten the script for disasters.

“… Climate change has rewritten the script for disasters, leaving communities vulnerable to weather patterns that don’t abide by schedules or the rules of past behavior. As a result, hundreds of thousands of emergency responders are facing unprecedented challenges —from burnout to post-traumatic stress disorder to tighter budgets — as they battle hurricanes, windstorms, wildfires, floods and other natural disasters that are more frequent and intense than those in the past. …”

David Montgomery, TEXAS Stateline News:  Emergency responders struggle with burnout, budgets as disasters mount