Preparedness and Communications

Teachers are already stressed. But along with testing standards, parent relationships and growing class sizes, teachers and school staff in the post-Columbine era increasingly worry about keeping their students — and themselves — safe from shootings and other violence.

The California For All Emergency Preparedness Campaign will infuse $50 million into targeted regions and communities and expand preparedness programs including Citizens Emergency Response Teams and Listos.

The annual event brings together regional emergency managers, first responders, health care representatives and other emergency "partners" to network and learn what's new in preparing for and responding to tropical weather.

Cities that adopt IoT tech could reap big benefits. A network of connected sensors and devices can reduce the severity of accidents or eliminate them entirely, like smart cars that intelligently avoid impacting one another.

FBI officials said they were not aware of any specific threat to this year's marathon. But in the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency bunker on Monday morning, officials were prepared.

If a quake like that were to strike along the San Andreas Fault today, building damage would eclipse $98 billion and tens of thousands of residents would become homeless.

Sunday morning forecasts called for the chance of damaging wind, large hail and isolated tornadoes and flash flooding, according to the NWS. Monday calls for sunny skies and a high of 68 degrees in the Rock Hill and Charlotte regions.

The city/county managers should play a huge role in facilitating relationships and responsibilities and help elected officials understand that they should be included in preparation and training.

Tacoma has taken a similar approach, setting up a large, industrial-style tent shelter with case-management services, shower and laundry trailers paired with 40 of the “pallet” shelters, where people can move.

The Chula Vista Police Department is undergoing a pilot project that uses the Samsung Galaxy smartphone to bypass the traditional mobile data terminal in police vehicles.

The 8,000-square-foot center "bunker" meets FEMA 361 construction standards to withstand a direct impact of an F5 tornado.

A recent inspection of Warrenton's nearly 11 miles of levees revealed several issues. Encroachments include things like a garage, gates, sign posts, boat dock access ramps, water and sewer pipes and utility poles.

A hydrologist for the National Weather Service in Portland said the weather service has no record of a flood event in the southern Willamette Valley occurring this late in the rainy season.

Federal agents reviewed the local transit system, checking stations and going over the agency’s training and security protocols. SacRT’s plan was “very strong.”

The recent Northern California wildland fires and the wide paths of death and destruction the flames created should be enough for Marin officials to take the initiative to try to improve safety.