California's COVID-19 emergency ends 3 years since stay-at-home orders were first issued. Feb 28, 2023

"As California's emergency winds down, such declarations continue in just five other states — including Texas and Illinois — signaling an end to the expanded legal powers of governors to suspend laws in response to the once mysterious disease. President Joe Biden announced last month the federal government will end its own version May 11.

"Newsom on Tuesday signed a proclamation officially ending the state of emergency, declaring “the conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property … no longer exist.”

"The end of California's order will have little to no effect on most people as Newsom already lifted most of the state's restrictions, like those that required masks, closed beaches and forced many businesses to close. It offers a symbolic marker of the end of a period that once drastically altered the lives of the state's nearly 40 million residents. …"

https://www.kcra.com/article/california-covid-19-emergency-to-end-3-years-later/43113555

Passengers in fatal Life Flight in Nevada identified:

PILOT: Scott Walton

PARAMEDIC: Ryan Watson

FLIGHT NURSE: Ed Pricola

PATIENT and spouse: Mark and Terri Rand

The NTSB said in an update Sunday that the flight was en route from Reno to Salt Lake City, and it crashed after parts of it fell apart mid-air.

No one survived.

Care Flight is a service of from REMSA Health, which is headquartered in Nevada, and Utah-based Guardian Flight.

https://www.fox13now.com/news/national-news/family-friends-identify-victims-of-care-flight-crash

"The NTSB said the "Care Flight" was operated by Guardian Flight, a company based out of South Jordan, Utah. The company "specializes in the critical medical transport of patients" in "remote and rural settings," according to its website.

"According to the NTSB, this is the third fatal incident in the past "several" years involving a Guardian-operated aircraft that the agency is investigating. The company reportedly operates approximately 60 aircraft.

"In December 2022, a Guardian-operated flight went down off the coast of Hawaii, killing three people. Another Guardian flight crashed in January 2019 in Alaska, also killing three.

"The NTSB also investigated another incident in Arizona where a pilot lost control. That resulted in no injuries.

"Although the investigation is in preliminary stages, the NTSB confirmed Sunday that parts of the plane — a Pilatus PC-12 fixed-wing aircraft — broke up in the air. These parts included an outboard section of the right wing and a horizontal stabilizer on the tail.

"The NTSB said they found parts scattered between half a mile and 3/4 mile from the wreckage, but they have not yet determined at what altitude it happened.

"There was no distress call at any point," said Landsberg.

"Landsberg described the crash as “unusual.” Investigators are looking at all possibilities, with weather getting “very close scrutiny.”

“These planes are designed to fly in that type of weather condition,” he said.

https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/medical-plane-crash-with-5-dead-near-reno-was-headed-to-salt-lake-city-third-fatal-crash-for-operator