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Students from upstate New York gathered this month at the University of Albany’s College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity to share visions of artificial intelligence in emergency response.
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The National Weather Service emphasizes the importance of acting quickly to stay safe during a tornado and being informed about tornado watches and warnings by staying connected to local news or a NOAA Weather Radio.
The fact that police were unprepared and waited some 77 minutes to enter the school, and that Uvalde is a small community where law enforcement are always at the fore, adds another layer of grief to the situation.
FEMA collected data in March 2023, and using risk assessments, created a map that shows the counties that are most at risk for wildfires. FEMA looked at community resilience and how well people prepare.
The money was generated from unique trends such as federal pandemic relief programs and is not a recurring appropriation. Seventy percent went to cities and towns of all sizes and to townships with more than 10,000 people.
FEMA created a map using its data and risk assessments that shows the counties across the U.S. currently considered the most and the least at risk of potential wildfires, from very low to very high.
Several Midwest public safety agencies this week either tested their emergency warning sirens as planned or sounded a siren as a warning of what to expect from now on; one accidentally sounded a real alarm.
The 15 deaths in the first two months of the year are by far the most in this time period since 2015 and almost five times the nine-year average of 3.2 deaths, according to data obtained by CT Insider.
The pop-up warming shelters were said to have achieved the goal of shuttling people inside during January’s five-day, four-night arctic freeze, but some have concerns about security at the shelters.
Officials at Eau Claire County, Wis., have debuted a new dashboard that displays “up to the minute information” on weather, fires and related events. Issues identified in an update of the county Hazard Mitigation Plan also will be incorporated.
Early CPR — an emergency lifesaving procedure performed when the heart stops beating — and rapid defibrillation from an AED are proven methods in improving a person's chance of surviving sudden cardiac arrest.
The county first responders took a tour of the Texas State Technical College’s Immersive Interactive lab and its ambulance simulator. The county recently purchased its own immersive interactive lab.
The new $74 million upgrade is scheduled to go live in October and will improve radio coverage by expanding capacity from 3,000 radios to 5,000 and moving the system into the 700- to 800-megahertz frequency range.
The storm will begin Thursday and could last through Sunday. Blizzard warnings are in effect in the Sierra Nevada and up to 12 feet of snow is possible.
The award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be used in some of the state’s highest risk areas for wildfire prevention, as well as improving forest health and building community resilience.
The city commissioned the study to evaluate how Missoula’s emergency medical system is operating. It laid out 15 recommendations for the city to consider on ramping up its medical response methods.
