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Coming on the heels of unanswered 911 calls, the improvements are part of a $39.2 million contract that the City Council voted on last year. The work will allow Jersey City to take part in a statewide 911 upgrade. -
After a mild winter that left the state with a relatively low snowpack, Gov. Tina Kotek signed an executive order on March 31 declaring drought emergencies in three eastern Oregon counties, months earlier than previous years.
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For National Pet Preparedness Month, the Michigan State Police Emergency Management and Homeland Security Division is asking residents to create an emergency preparedness kit for their pets to round out family readiness.
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But more than half of those polled said they didn’t have an emergency preparedness plan in place and 40 percent couldn’t list all their prescription medication details, including dosage or prescribing doctor. -
Top emergency preparedness experts shared their tips, tricks and a few of the more unusual items on their shopping lists this year to make sure your hurricane kit is ready for the worst of whatever weather comes our way.
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Collaborating with multiple agencies and using firefighters on light duty, the department hopes to get ahead of a problem of aging residents and people with disabilities relying on the fire department for ordinary tasks.
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While the federal government requires that persons with disabilities not be placed in long-term care facilities, these requirements are often waived during disasters, allowing for the institutionalization of some people.
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“We need to do a better job communicating the risks. There is no such thing as `just’ a Category 1; we have to move away from these labels that may give the public a false sense of security.’"
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Hurricane Michael was particularly chilling for experts. It gained far more intensity than expected and, making landfall on Oct. 10, came as the June 1 to Nov. 30 hurricane season was winding down.
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The study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examined multiple facets of natural and manmade events, ranging from flooding to wildfires to disease outbreaks to chemical spills.
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School safety curriculums like Run, Hide, Fight teach as a last resort standing up to a gunman and fighting back, but are students and teachers really equipped to handle such actions?
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National Weather Service forecasters on Wednesday said the islands could be threatened by five to eight storms from June through November. The season norm in the Central Pacific hurricane basin is four or five.
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Before urban development, trees, grass and shrubs served as a natural stormwater management system where rain collected and, when necessary, flowed into streams and rivers to mitigate potential floodwater.
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'An outbreak of tornadoes, some potentially long-track and violent, is expected today into this evening over portions of northwest Texas into western and central Oklahoma.'
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To stay safe during a tornado warning, it’s important to know what to do and where to go. The National Weather Service always recommends getting on the first floor of a building, away from windows.
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After conducting an assessment of the 78-year-old structure earlier this month, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced that it was raising the Prado Dam’s risk category from “moderate” to “high urgency.”
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Two hundred drone missions garnered some 8,000 photos and video, which helped the North Carolina Department of Transportation inform the public of where the dangerous infrastructure was.
