A condominium located at 1 Dalton Street in Boston has a new owner. The 1,403-square-foot property, built in 2015, was sold on Oct. 21, 2024, for $4,200,000, or $2,994 per square foot. The layout of this condo includes two bedrooms and three baths. The home’s outer structure has a flat roof frame. The property is equipped with forced air heating and a cooling system. In addition, the home is equipped with a one-car garage, allowing for convenient vehicle storage and protection.

These nearby units have also recently changed hands:

• In July 2024, a 1,693-square-foot unit on Belvidere Street in Boston sold for $2,850,000, a price per square foot of $1,683. The unit has 2 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms.
• On Belvidere Street, Boston, in October 2023, a 972-square-foot unit was sold for $1,400,000, a price per square foot of $1,440. The unit has 1 bedroom and 2 bathrooms.
• A 837-square-foot unit at 100 Belvidere Street in Boston sold in April 2023, for $1,150,000, a price per square foot of $1,374. The unit has 1 bedroom 1 bathroom.

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh EMS workers say they are understaffed and overstretched, racing from one call to the next.

Like operations throughout the country, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Emergency Medical Services is contending with a shortage of paramedics and emergency medical technicians.

From traffic accidents to people experiencing chest pains to addicts overdosing on fentanyl, the calls for service are constant.

With less than 200 employees, Pittsburgh EMS responded to more than 65,000 calls last year. At the same time, it’s dealing with retirements, on-the-job injuries, and a severe shortage of recruits.

Bureau Chief Amera Gilchrist has stepped up recruiting efforts and employed better use of data, but has had to resort to taking medic units out of service on given days as she tries to provide life-saving services to city residents.

“Any time we have to take units out of service is challenging. I don’t think there has been one call when the public has requested our services when we have not been there,” Chief Gilchrist said.

The men and women of Pittsburgh EMS have been able to maintain that pace despite being severely understaffed. Nationwide, there’s a shortage of EMTs and paramedics recruits, while the city continues to lose them to retirement and injury.

Those on the front lines amassed $6 million in overtime just last year, with one paramedic alone making $327,000. Five others pulled in more than $200,000, while 69 others made more than $100,000 in mostly forced overtime.

“When you’re forced to do overtime and you have a family and you want free time, we don’t wish that on anyone,” says Pittsburgh councilman Anthony Coghill (D).

Managing the staffing shortage and keeping EMS afloat falls to its chief, Gilchrist, who has begun using data to better marshal EMTs to basic calls and the more highly-skilled paramedics to the more serious ones. She’s also taken the controversial step of taking some units out of service on a given day, sidelining one of the medic units in Homewood indefinitely.

At the same time, Gilchrist says she’s trying to address the strain on her employees.

“We care about the mental health of our employees. It has fallen by the wayside in recent years, but that is the reason why we have a hiring and recruitment initiative going on, and it’s going to take time,” Gilchrist added.

This year, Gilchrist has hired 30 additional employees. Some of them are from the Freedom House in the Hill District, named after the original African-American ambulance service which formed the nucleus of EMS Bureau in the early 1970s.

The paramedic union is currently in contract talks with the city, asking for higher base pay and a lifting of the city’s residency requirement, which no longer applies to city police and firefighters.

“Ideally, no, I would not like to see them lift the residency requirement, but if that’s what it takes to get our medic units up to full staff, I’ll let the collective bargaining hash that out,” Coghill said.

Gilchrist believes the EMS will be made whole in time.

“This is a marathon, not a sprint. It didn’t get this way overnight and it’s not going to be fixed overnight, but we are hitting the pavement to get this initiative pushed forward,” Gilchrist said.

Immigration advocates say they’ve already been preparing for President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to ramp up deportations once he returns to the White House.

“We anticipate that they’re going to be very quick, very rapid, very massive efforts to grab as many people as possible and deport them,” National Immigration Law Center President Kica Matos said during a rally outside the Capitol on Monday.

Matos said hers and other organizations began considering possible actions earlier this year in case Trump won.

Now, Trump is promising to deliver on his campaign pledge, taking to his Truth Social platform earlier in the morning to confirm he plans to declare a national emergency.

He also intends to try and use the military to support his deportation effort, his post confirmed.

Advocates said they’re trying to assume undocumented immigrants in Connecticut that their organizations will offer support.

“If families have to be separated, it defeats the point completely because people are trying to get to the United States to be with their families,” said Tabitha Sookdeo, executive director of CT Students For a Dream.

Sookdeo said her family came from Guyana when she was a teenager and her grandmother, who was a U.S. citizen, was trying to help them also get permanent legal status.

Her grandmother died during the process, though, leaving Sookdeo’s family in limbo.

“Immigration is pretty complicated,” she said.

Democrats, meanwhile, said they won’t support federal deportation efforts.

Attorney General William Tong (D) pointed to the state’s Trust Act, which bars local and state agencies from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement efforts.

“Connecticut is going to care for our immigrant families and immigrant neighbors and friends,” Tong said.

There are some exceptions, including when an undocumented immigrant is convicted of a Class A or Class B felony. Tong wouldn’t say if that means Connecticut has to notify federal authorities of such a conviction.

“I’m not going to issue a legal opinion on the fly from this podium,” Tong said.

Connecticut Republicans were critical of Democrats, though, saying their policies don’t reflect what voters want.

Rep. Vincent Candelora (R-Minority Leader) said Connecticut spends too much money supporting undocumented immigrants, including with Medicaid, education and other assistance.

He also said voters are worried about public safety.

“It’s really out of step, I think, with what the residents and America wants, and that is, you know, safe borders, public safety and we have to get the cost of immigration under control,” Candelora said.