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A system designed to amplify classroom audio can now be equipped with safety buttons that provide teachers with a one-touch ability to notify office personnel if something is amiss.
The cameras are monitored by police in the Real Time Crime Center on a Fusus solution that provides access to each camera to all officers, whether in the crime center or on the MDT in a police car.
Sewickley partnered with the company to use CodeRED, a cloud-based software system that sends out messages to subscribers. "The goal is to sign up as many people as we can. If something came up, we can use it today and it's not a problem."
“Maintaining and modernizing this infrastructure is core to ensuring system resiliency through our day-to-day needs and also ensuring that we’re resilient through droughts, including natural and manmade disasters.”
With the impacts from climate change, in some areas there is now a higher concentration of rain in a shorter period of time and stormwater systems, typically in the West and Northeast, are being overwhelmed.
The bill initially required schools to hire either a trained, armed school police officer, a school resource officer or a school security guard for every school building, but was scaled back because of cost concerns.
Predictive modeling can help stimulate traffic flow, and when combined with a robust mass notification system can help emergency managers conduct efficient evacuation operations during disasters.
An existing Red Cross building will be remodeled into a hardened 13,100-square-foot building that allows Bradenton's emergency response staff to weather a storm and deploy resources.
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Reliable communications help provide quick, safe, life-saving help when a natural disaster strikes.
Washington's updated smoke management plan will give firefighters more planning time and a longer season to ignite controlled burns that help prevent massive wildfires.
The funding is part of $2 billion awarded nationally to help states build and sustain capabilities to prevent, protect against, respond to and recover from acts of terrorism and other disasters.
The city encouraged residents to check on family members, neighbors, friends and pets during the hot weather. David Holden, emergency manager for Joplin and Jasper County, Mo., said some city buildings will be open as cooling centers.
“It’s gotten hotter now than it was in the past, but we’re not done with the increasing exposure to extreme heat. It’s going to continue to increase into the future.”
"With Valdosta being inland, the chances of extreme impacts favor heavy rain and flooding more than wind," said Mike Doll, senior meteorologist with the private forecasting firm AccuWeather.
The Bradenton-born Boylan runs Mike's Weather Page, a website once described by hurricane harbinger Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel as a "one-stop shop" for the latest tropical updates.