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San Bernardino Health division to be staffed by temps
San Bernardino County’s Environmental Health Services division to reopen Monday
SB Sun, 12/11/15, 12:45 PM
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“The county’s plan is to have them all on leave until Jan. 4,” Wert said Friday.
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The county’s environmental health service employees were attending an all-day training conference and holiday luncheon at Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino on Dec. 2 when Syed Farook, an environmental health specialist for the county, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, burst into the event, clad in tactical gear and ski masks and brandishing assault rifles. They opened fire on the crowd of about 70, killing 14 people, most of them county employees, and wounding 22 others.
Environmental health specialists conduct health inspections of restaurants, schools and other businesses countywide.
Temporary staff will run environmental services, an arm of the Department of Public Health, in the interim. They will be composed of county employees who formerly worked in the division, retired employees who formerly worked in the division, and possibly employees from other counties, Wert said.
Should the need arise to pull employees from other counties, the state Department of Public Health would coordinate that because environmental services is actually a function of the state that the county carries out, Wert said.
San Bernardino County’s Environmental Health Services division has 114 budgeted positions for the current fiscal year.
http://www.sbsun.com/government-and-politics/20151211/san-bernardino-countys-environmental-health-services-division-to-reopen-monday
SB Sun, 12/11/15, 12:45 PM
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“The county’s plan is to have them all on leave until Jan. 4,” Wert said Friday.
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The county’s environmental health service employees were attending an all-day training conference and holiday luncheon at Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino on Dec. 2 when Syed Farook, an environmental health specialist for the county, and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, burst into the event, clad in tactical gear and ski masks and brandishing assault rifles. They opened fire on the crowd of about 70, killing 14 people, most of them county employees, and wounding 22 others.
Environmental health specialists conduct health inspections of restaurants, schools and other businesses countywide.
Temporary staff will run environmental services, an arm of the Department of Public Health, in the interim. They will be composed of county employees who formerly worked in the division, retired employees who formerly worked in the division, and possibly employees from other counties, Wert said.
Should the need arise to pull employees from other counties, the state Department of Public Health would coordinate that because environmental services is actually a function of the state that the county carries out, Wert said.
San Bernardino County’s Environmental Health Services division has 114 budgeted positions for the current fiscal year.
http://www.sbsun.com/government-and-politics/20151211/san-bernardino-countys-environmental-health-services-division-to-reopen-monday
LA Times, Dec. 8:
More than 70 workers in the 100-person division of the Department of Public Health had attended Wednesday's events. Of the 14 people killed, 12 were county employees. Many of the 21 who survived with injuries were also from the division.
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-public-health-20151208-story.html
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-public-health-20151208-story.html
Farook was a health inspector.
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She was about to receive an award for her work:
The 27-year-old was going to receive a gold badge officially recognizing her as a San Bernardino County health inspector at a holiday work event.
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She started off in vector control, collecting mosquitoes hovering near backyard pools and dirty puddles for disease testing, and eventually became an environmental health specialist, a job that sent her around the county inspecting restaurants.
It was a job she was passionate about: Even at home, she would chide her sisters when they left out food for too long.
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But they did get one last piece of their daughter's life to hold on to: The gold star badge she had been waiting to receive.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/12/10/56152/san-bernardino-shooting-funerals-for-14-killed-set/
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She started off in vector control, collecting mosquitoes hovering near backyard pools and dirty puddles for disease testing, and eventually became an environmental health specialist, a job that sent her around the county inspecting restaurants.
It was a job she was passionate about: Even at home, she would chide her sisters when they left out food for too long.
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But they did get one last piece of their daughter's life to hold on to: The gold star badge she had been waiting to receive.
http://www.scpr.org/news/2015/12/10/56152/san-bernardino-shooting-funerals-for-14-killed-set/
She was buried on Thursday.
