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One way the Bend Fire Department measures its performance is by response times. The 80th percentile response time is a common measure used bythe department.
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RESPONSE TIMES 80 percent of calls are responded to within this time, shown in minutes
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minutes,22 seconds in 2010,according to the department. The remainStatistics released by the Bend ing calls took longer. Fire D epartment o n Th u r sday Fire Chief Larry Huhn said the showed that it took firefighters and Fire Department has been thinmedics longer to reach people who ning its staff by attrition, and reneeded help in 2011 than in the pre- duced its payroll by 10 people over vious four years. the last three years. Huhn said reThe Fire Department responded sponse times could continue to into 80 percent of calls within 9 min- crease because he will have to lay utes, 59 seconds in 2011, up from 9 off employees, unless the city finds The Bulletin
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years. "If we don't get extra funding above our base rate over these next two years, we're going to have to lay off up to half a dozen people," Huhn said in an interview this week. The department has approximately 80 employees, Huhn said. See Fire/A7
By Lauren Dake The Bulletin
SALEM — Oregon Democratic lawmakers made history Thursday when they selected Rep. Tina Kotek as their nominee to hold the speaker's gavel, putting her in line to be the nation's first openly lesbian House speaker. Democrats broke the historic 30-30 split in the House by
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he intersection of Brookswood Boulevard and Powers Road reopened Friday with a new roundabout. Another intersection with a new roundabout, at Northeast 18th Street and Empire Avenue, is scheduled to reopen Tuesday. Both intersections had been closed for four months while the roundabouts were built. The new roundabouts were part of the general obligation bond approved by voters in May 2011. The bond authorized $30 million in transportation projects. Roundabout art will be installed separately by Art in Public Places.
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WASHINGTON — Testifying out of sight, ex-CIA Director David Petraeus told Congress on Friday that classified intelligence showed the deadly raid on the U.S. Consulate in Libya was a terrorist attack but the administration withheld the suspected role of al-Qaida affiliates to avoid tipping them off. The recently resigned spy chief explained that references to terrorist groups suspected of carryingout the violence were removed from the public explanation of what caused the attack so as not to alert them that U.S. intelligence was on their trail, according to lawmakers who attended Petraeus' private
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seats in the recent electton, gtvtng the party a Kotek 34-26 e dge over their Republican counterparts. In the 2011 and 2012 legislative sessions, Rep. Arnie Roblan, a Democrat from Coos Bay, shared the speaker duties with Rep. Bruce Hanna, a Republican from Roseburg. Roblan and Hanna were hailed for helping their parties avoid partisan breakdowns that were evident in other states. Roblan said he's confident Kotek will keep the spirit of bipartisanship intact. "She's thoughtful," Roblan said. "She comes from the Portland area and sometimes people in rural areas get nervous about that. But she listens intently to the needs that exist across the state." Kotek, 46, will work closely with Rep. Mike McLane, R-Powell Butte, who was selected last week to be the House Republican Leader. During McLane's first legislative session, his desk on the House floor was next to Kotek's desk. See Speaker /A6
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Drug shortages, oncetbougbt to be temporary, now afact of life By Katie Thomas
In the end, he opted not to give her the morphine, a decision that haunts him still. "I just feel like I'm not doing my job," said Davis, who ischiefofthe rescue squad in Vernon, Ohio. He has since refilled his
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Paul Davis, the chief of a rural ambulance squad in southern Ohio, was down to his last vial of morphine earlier this fall when a woman with a brokenlegneeded a ride to the hospital. The trip was 30 minutes, and the patient was in pain. But because of a nationwide
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shortage, his morphine supply had dwindled from four doses to one, presenting Davis with a stark quandary. Should he treat the woman, who was clearly suffering'? Or should he save it for a patient who might need it more'?
"I shouldn't have to make those kinds of decisions," Davis said. From ruralambulance squads to prestigious hospitals, health care workers are struggling to keep vital medicines in stock because of a drug shortage crisis that is proving to be stubbornly difficult to fix. See Shortage/A4
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Jennifer Lacognata, left, was prescribed a liquid vitaminthat the manufacturer recently stopped making.She sued the company unsuccessfully to try to compel it to make the drug again. Here, she attends karate class with her daughter in Safety Harbor, Fla.
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TEL AVIV, Israel — With rockets landing on the outskirts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on Friday and the Egyptian prime minister making a solidarity visit to Gaza, the accelerating conflict between Israel and Hamas — reminiscent Inside inmanyways • Israel of so many moves pr e v i ous batcloser to t l e s — has the a ground m a k i ngs of a operation, new kind of A3 Israeli-Palestinian face-off. The combination of longer-range and far deadlier rockets in the hands of more radicalized Palestinians, the arrival in Gaza and Sinai from North Africa of other militants pressuring Hamas to fight more, and the growing tide of anti-Israel fury in a region where authoritarian rulers have been replaced by Islamists means that Israel is engaging in this conflict with a different set
of challenges. The Middle East of 2012 is not what it was in late 2008, the last time that Israel mounted a military invasion to reduce the rocket threat from Gaza. Many analysts and diplomats outside Israel say the country today needs a different approach to Hamas and the Palestinians based more on acknowledging historic grievances and shifting alliances. But the Israeli government and the vast majority of tts people have drawn a very different conclusion. Their dangerous neighborhood is growing still more dangerous, they agree. That means not concessions, but being tougher in pursuit of deterrence, and abandoning illusions that a Jewish state will ever be broadly accepted here. See Middle East/A7
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