Recovery

The city’s first public safety text alert got the job done even if there need to be improvements in the future.

Count on these assumptions: There will not be emergency response by fire services, Emergency Medical Services or law enforcement for an unknown time.

In the wake of the Florida school shooting, now is a good time to educate parents and others in the community about efforts to protect students.

"There was 150 people who were injured in there, who we told, 'We have four ambulances.' But calling in mutual aid took us a long time to find agencies, and the county (dispatcher) was like, 'Uh, we're trying to find ambulances, we're trying, we're trying."

The financial benefits may help increase the number of volunteer firefighters.

School administrations, mental health workers and law enforcement are often siloed.

The forecasts, closely held internal records, have emerged six months after Harvey through discovery in a lawsuit.

The train tracks pass within a half mile of the site proposed by the Mohawk Valley Health System.

Flood waters can contain contaminants, and the water also may carry electrical currents from downed power lines or appliances.

'Every time one of these things happens, sometimes there's copycat issues or kids who try to pull a stupid stunt.'

The Senate has already proposed a $13 million spending increase, to $78.1 million, for school safety and another $100 million as part of a new category of K-12 school funding for mental health.

For over two decades, Cal State Fullerton’s Binod Tiwari has studied such mudslides and landslides around the world, including in Southern California, to understand their causes and mitigate their devastation.

Many of the government leaders who came from communities spanning from Fulton to Victoria, Texas said they didn't have a place for residents or first responders to take shelter.

The report identified a need for HI-EMA to prepare a strategic plan and update its All Hazards Catastrophic Plan to include chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear scenarios. It recommended including all emergency management stakeholders in future planning and outlined tens of millions of dollars in future capital improvement investments.

'So many of our members are suffering. On a given week we will see two to four new cases.'