Unusually frigid temperatures in the inland Pacific Northwest last month gave first responders in Northern Idaho the perfect opportunity to familiarize themselves with a new BNSF airboat and other winter rescue equipment. A training session held at Lake Pend Oreille near Sandpoint, Idaho saw first responders in the region practice airboat operation on water, ice, snow and bare ground. Participants also practiced using other winter rescue equipment, such as ice saws, dry suits, rafts and drones.
The airboat is available for local and regional hazards and rescue operations, as almost all boat launches in Bonner County are unusable during winter months. Participants came from all over the region, including Selkirk Fire, Sam Owen Fire, Bonner County Emergency Management and the Office of Emergency Management for the City of Lewiston and Nez Perce County.


Lot 1 – Approx. 40 acres with a general purpose shed and cattle accommodation.
Lot 2 – Approx. 8.6 acres of mixed rough and good agricultural land, separated from Lot 1 by the Antrim Rd.
These lands are particularly well located and interest is expected to be high therefore early inspection is highly recommended.


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Sajid Javid to face MPs over crisis in UK steel industry
Business secretary to appear at business select committee on Thursday with Tata chief executive and union leaders
The business secretary, Sajid Javid, is to be questioned by MPs about the crisis in the steel industry and the government's efforts to save thousands of jobs.
He will appear before the business select committee on Thursday as efforts continue to find a buyer for Tata Steel's UK assets.
Bimlendra Jha, the chief executive of Tata, Gareth Stace of trade group UK Steel, and Roy Rickhuss, the general secretary of the Community union, will also appear before the committee.
Other witnesses will include Marc Meyohas of Greybull Capital, which is buying Tata's plant at Scunthorpe.
David Cameron, visited the Tata steelworks in Port Talbot, south Wales, on Tuesday to assure workers, unions and bosses of the government's commitment to support the future of steel-making at the plant.
Unions welcomed the recent offer of state support for potential buyers, but stressed that any action must cover plants across the whole country and not just in Wales.
Rickhuss said the prime minister had "looked proud steelworkers in the eye and promised to do all he could to protect their jobs", and said his union would "hold him at his word".

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South West London Health and Care Partnership
Patient & Public Engagement
NHS services, local councils and community organisations to team up to make care better for local people
The NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector in south west London have strengthened their commitment to working together to deliver better care for local people, the latest strategy from South West London's Health & Care Partnership announces today.
The renewed focus will see organisations providing health and care in six London boroughs come together as four local partnerships, acting as one team to keep people healthy and well in Croydon, Sutton, Kingston & Richmond, and Merton & Wandsworth.
Dr Naz Jivani, Clinical Lead for the South West London Health and Care Partnership and GP Chair of Kingston CCG said:
"We have listened to local people, our partners in local authorities, politicians and experts like the King's Fund over the last year. Our new approach reflects what people have told us3.
"As little as 10 per cent of local people's health and wellbeing is linked to access to healthcare, and that's why we're focused on prevention and early intervention. To keep people healthy and well, we need to think about their surroundings, where they live, their education or work and their lifestyle as well as their healthcare. This is why we have set up local health and care partnerships.
"We are working together in new ways across our organisational boundaries, acting as one team, to keep people healthy and give local people better care when they are ill.
"We are already making real progress together. Now, we want to work even more closely with our health and care partners to develop local plans which reflect the needs of each population."
A key part of the latest announcement from south west London's Health and Care Partnership is a joint commmitment to champion children and young peoples' mental health and well-being as a shared health promotion and prevention priority.
Dr Jivani continued, "With one in ten children aged 5-16 having a diagnosable mental health condition, and increasing levels of self-harm an issue across south west London, we will work be working together across all areas to raise awareness and understanding of this important issue.
"We will also be talking to young people to help us understand what knowledge and support they need, to strengthen their personal resilence and to encourage them to seek the right advice and services."
One year on from the publication of its health and care plan to bring together local services, South West London's Health and Care Partnership has already seen a number of successful collaborations, including:
Personal independence co-ordinators providing support for older people with long term health conditions in Croydon, as part of a partnership between Age UK, local GPs, the NHS and Croydon Council.
A reduction in the number of days older people from care homes in Sutton are spending in hospital, thanks to better communication between hospitals and care home staff and a red bag containing all their relevant information, medicines and personal belongings
Extending GP hours from 8am – 8pm in every borough to ensure patients have access to an additional 15,000 appointments per month
The development of a 24/7 'safe house' in Kingston for people suffering a mental health crisis, which has meant 9 out of 10 visitors return home without needing to stay in hospital
Teams of doctors, nurses, mental health experts and therapists across Merton and Wandsworth working together to respond rapidly when older people are taken ill – and to help them to be treated in their own home when possible
An additional £400,000 of funding for NHS 111, with more doctors and nurses available to give advice to patients, care homes and the ambulance service over the phone
Ensuring that every hospital in south west London now has 24/7 support in place for people suffering mental health crises
Dr Andrew Murray, Merton CCG GP Chair and Joint Chair of the South West London Clinical Senate – made up of leading doctors, nurses and therapists from across the patch, said:
"We will continue to need all of our hospitals and we will not be closing any of them. It's for local health and care partners to work out what services their area needs, what can be provided in the community and what the local hospital can provide.
The four local areas are starting to look at the quality of services. As a starting point, each of our hospitals was asked to self-assess six of their services against an agreed set of clinical standards set by the South West London Clinical Senate.
Local areas will now need to test those self-assessments and consider what actions will be required to deliver the necessary clinical standards for all our patients."
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CAF initiates the usual procedure
The Organizing Committee of CHAN initiated the usual procedure by seizing the competent judicial body of CAF about the absence of Morocco.
The Algeria 2022 African Nations Championship is being played without Morocco, the two-time defending champion. The Algerian authorities did not react positively to the request made by the Royal Moroccan Federation (FRMF) through the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to travel to Constantine via a direct flight, operated by RAM, from Rabat.
Following this absence, the CHAN Organizing Committee met on Monday, January 16 in Algiers, in accordance with the rules of the competition.
On this occasion, it was decided "that Group C will be composed of three teams (Ghana, Sudan and Madagascar) with the direct consequence of the qualification of the first two teams for the knockout phase", indicates the football governing body. African in a press release.
The Organizing Committee of CHAN also initiated the usual procedure by seizing the competent judicial body of CAF about the absence of Morocco during the match scheduled for Sunday in Constantine against Sudan.
As a reminder, the FRMF was informed on December 22, 2022 by the Confederation of African Football (CAF), as the body in charge of the organization of CHAN, that an authorization in principle had been obtained following its request for authorization for a direct RAM flight from Rabat to Constantine.
On the basis of this authorization in principle, the FRMF communicated the details of the plan and the coordinates of the flights of the Moroccan selection in order to obtain the final authorization for the RAM flight from Rabat to Constantine and continued the preparation of the trip and the participation of the Moroccan national team in CHAN, in particular the preparation camp at the Mohammed VI Football Complex in Salé from 6 to 10 January during which two friendly matches against Ethiopia were played.
However, the final authorization for the RAM flight from Rabat to Constantine never arrived.
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