Preparedness and Communications

Public safety commission’s stinging rebuke of the principal was part of a broad look at policy and training failures at the school and at the district level, leading to the murders of 14 children and three staff members. A former student, Nikolas Cruz, is charged with the killings and faces the death penalty.

The report calls Hurricane Harvey a warning that should not be ignored. "The enormous toll on individuals, businesses and public infrastructure should provide a wake-up call underlining the urgent need to 'future-proof' the Gulf Coast - and indeed all of Texas - against future disasters.'"

The student rights organization also called for an increase in guidance counselors and a shift toward restorative justice, which uses dialogue and understanding to resolve disciplinary issues.

Medical errors cause up to 400,000 deaths per year and 80 percent of errors stem from miscommunication, according to Pulsara’s website. The new technology is supposed to help decrease those numbers.

The Berks County, Pa., program has included annual symposiums on topics ranging from bullying to heroin use to suicide prevention. In 2012, the symposium focused on the county's all-hazard planning and standard response protocols, an effort to coordinate responses to tragic, large-scale events like a school shooting.

Code red is what law enforcement uses to warn residents of threats in their neighborhood. That could be an encroaching wildfire or a gunman on the run. The test has become more critical with more people ditching their landlines and relying on cellphones.

The new public safety complex for fire, police and emergency services will be 44,000 square feet. It’s part of the city’s $73 million essential facilities project, which was designed by Mary McGrath Architects of Oakland.

“This is a really odd workplace. I’ll be sitting there having a conversation with someone, and one seat away, someone’s doing CPR,” Gaylord said. “It goes on all day long, right? It’s a little weird when new people come in and see that, because they’re like, ‘Oh my God, there’s a life-and-death situation going on right now!’

More than 300 experts took part in the 1,600-plus-page report, ranging from 13 government agencies, universities, climate scientists and other experts. It is the first such report under the Trump administration and fourth overall. The report is mandated by law.

Cass County E911 dispatches for over 20 agencies, including five law enforcement, 11 fire, two EMS, animal control, Cass County Government Building security and an emergency management agency while maintaining regular contact with the Indiana State Police and Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

In partnership with Emergency Management and Samsung, the Planning for Technology in Support of Law Enforcement and public safety is set for next week.

PASS recommendations include how to procure technology, policies and procedures and why the National Response Framework and NIMS are so important.

Geologists say the 20-acre, 200-foot-deep mass could continue sliding for years, if not decades, and will likely fall bit by bit into the quarry pit owned by Columbia Asphalt. It will not become a fast-moving, catastrophically damaging landslide, they say.

The shelters cost from $50,000 to more than $100,000 but pay for themselves in lives saved, officials say. Many of the 47 shelters in operation are 10-by-48 feet and have a capacity of 96.

Police have been allowed access to surveillance video from Capital or Santa Fe high schools a handful of times since a school shooting in Parkland, Fla., last February.