Making Texas more resilient thru healthcare & disaster response | Chronic civic engager | Vol. firefighter/paramedic | Here to entertain, engage, & educate
San Antonio, TX
Joined November 2008
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The Texas EMTF continues to support the response to historic flooding with 6 severe weather packages activated across the state.
Currently, 162 #TXEMTF personnel and 79 assets are deployed.
Pictured below: deployed assets in Kerrville, TX.
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
We’re excited to share our law enforcement navigation (LE NAV) video!
This STCC-led behavioral health program, part of @STRAC, has transformed how we care for patients in crisis, ensuring timely, specialized treatment and easing pressure on ERs and EMS.
youtu.be/S8B3UnYHuvM
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
Today in Texas' housing crisis:
A developer pitched 85 low-income apartments & a pre-K facility in San Antonio. Neighbors used a Jim Crow-era law to force the project to get a supermajority of the City Council in order to go through
4 members voted "no," killing the project
'Very disappointed': San Antonio council rejects zoning for first-of-its-kind affordable housing trib.al/BLa2GTV
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
If Texas wants to rein in its high housing costs, it needs more homes, Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar’s office said Tuesday — the latest sign that the state’s high home prices and rents have become a growing concern for the state’s top officials. Texas needs 306,000 more homes than it currently has, according to a new report.
bit.ly/3MnIROk
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✅ Address the housing affordability crisis
✅ Provide permanent supportive housing services to combat homelessness
✅ Provide residents direct access to @VIA_Transit's planned Advanced Rapid Transit Green Line
Four25 San Pedro Apartments have officially broken ground.
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
Texas also set up a base camp with 650 rooms in trailers, equipped with bathrooms, showers, and dining facilities for our first responders who came from across Texas and other states to help. Most are firemen and women and EMT teams.
In addition, we have sent state troopers and police from across Texas to counties in the damaged areas. We supply generators. @TxDOT helps clear roads. @TXEMTF and various other agencies take on multiple tasks and provide support. This is just a part of the assistance Texas is providing in Houston and other counties affected by Beryl.
Statewide, Texas has distributed over:
1.9 million bottles of water
230k ready-to-eat meals
56k bags of ice
And we are not done yet. #txlege #HurricaneBeryl
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
WE MADE HISTORY! 👏 We're beyond excited to have welcomed the first @Condor nonstop flight from Frankfurt to San Antonio. Welcome to the Lone Star State!
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
Transit-oriented development could help boost affordable housing and make communities more walkable, but local policies often prevent developers from building high-density housing near public transportation stops.
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Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
For the morning crowd: The Austin City Council voted overnight to allow duplexes & triplexes in single-family neighborhoods in an effort to curtail the city's housing affordability crisis
texastribune.org/2023/12/07/…
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
🏆 Ronald M. Stewart, MD, FACS (@Stewartr84) will receive the Distinguished Service Award—the ACS’s highest annual honor—at #ACSCC23.
Read about Dr. Stewart’s service to the ACS and career accomplishments: facs.org/for-medical-profess…
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
It’s simple. Either we build places around people walking, biking, taking transit, and driving, or we build places around only driving.
The former creates strong, financially productive neighborhoods. The latter creates fragile, unproductive neighborhoods.
The choice is ours.
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
THIS IS HUGE! Germany & beyond just got a whole lot closer. SAT is THRILLED to announce nonstops from the Alamo City to Frankfurt, Germany will launch next May on @condor! Thank you Condor Airlines for investing in SA. Check out what you’ll experience at condor.com
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
HUGE housing wins in Austin today!
Council just passed resolutions to:
- Legalize 3 homes on every lot by-right
- Lower minimum lot size to 2500sqft
- Exempt 3 and 4-plexes from site plans, expediting approval from 1yr+ down to 60 days
Things are looking up in good ole ATX!
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
Texas can’t allow property owners’ associations to become a vehicle for discrimination–even in isolated cases.
I'm proud that HB 1193 will prohibit POAs from preventing homeowners
from renting to a tenant based on their method of payment–including Section 8 vouchers. #txlege
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc., the 50% nonprofit owner of one of the state’s largest hospital systems, plans to invest $149.9 million to boost health equity and expand services across its 74-county region. bizjournals.com/sanantonio/n…
Jordan Raffoul Ghawi retweeted
Last night, the #TXEMTF sent more than a dozen ambulances, 2 AMBUSs, 2 Medical Incident Support Team (MIST) members, and a Task Force Leader (TFL).
Currently, we have 2 AMBUSs, 4 ambulances, a MIST, & a TFL in Perryton to continue their support of local EMS and hospitals.
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One year ago today, 19 fourth-graders & two teachers were killed at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. The children loved TikTok and baseball, Pokémon & Starbucks. The teachers died trying to save their students. This is who they were: expressnews.com/projects/uva… #Remembertheirnames
