Preparedness and Communications

Some of this bacteria comes from raw sewage getting into the water. While wastewater is treated before it is dumped back into the river, flooding can cause treatment plants to be overwhelmed, releasing untreated waste into the river.

Some of the alerts were received in as few as four seconds in a test that went to some 40,000 people in downtown Oakland and asked respondents a series of questions about receiving alert notifications.

People in the county are able to subscribe to get AlertSense notifications by downloading the free app or texting their zip code.

The plans include a habitat water garden, pond overlook, savannah picnic grove, council ring, nature maze, turtle meadow, walking trails and other features.

The Wayne County commissioners authorized the Emergency Management Agency to apply for a grant from the George T. Dunlap Foundation in the amount of $20,859, enough for 130 kits.

While teaching in the classroom for 24 years in Cleburne, Texas, Jackie Beatty said parents never had to worry about sending their children to school. That is not the case nowadays.

The county dispatches for 12 townships, Hamilton, Oxford and the villages. Fairfield, Middletown, Monroe, Trenton and West Chester Township have their own centers.

March 25-29 is Emergency Management Week in Grady, County, Okla., which is an initiative to raise awareness of the role of emergency management.

Rollout of the new system was initially scheduled for this year, but several setbacks have pushed the project’s completion to 2022 at the soonest.

An emergency shelter-in-place warning was issued not because of the smoke, but from dangerously high levels of the invisible, cancer-causing crude oil compound benzene that were detected just outside of Houston in Deer Park.

With FirstNet’s designated network in all 50 states and dozens of apps available in its catalog, the niche market for first responders originally envisioned by the 9/11 Commission has come to fruition.

Newsom also waived environmental regulations to speed up almost three dozen local forest management projects, which will cost a total of $35 million, and will be paid with forest management funds in the 2018-19 budget.

The Emergency Video Assistance app connects the caller to the first responder, providing real-time situational awareness and saving critical minutes on scene. The app is a Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest finalist.

More than 100 people died in wildfires in California in 2017 and 2018, and more than 875,000 acres burned, but mountain-top cameras and high-resolution mapping systems are beginning to make a difference.

As FEMA works out new NFIP rules, residents and officials look forward to more accurate mapping, but worry that the price of flood insurance for some property owners may significantly increase.