Preparedness and Communications

This year, with the partial government shutdown preventing non-essential federal personnel from working, key planning activities simply aren’t happening.

The new operations center has 28 workstations set up and ready for use whenever the facility is activated. The workstations include a phone and a port for computer setups.

The National Weather Service and FEMA are still protecting life and limb, but research has stalled, meetings with local officials are being canceled, and some general upkeep is being ignored.

Sponsored by Rep. Neal Dunn, the bipartisan bill specifically corrects maps created by the Coastal Barrier Resources Act.

University officials declined to comment on the lawsuit, but USF Police Chief Chris Daniel said the department's Harris XG-75P radios work well and do not compromise safety.

More than 40 classes are scheduled across North and Central Texas this year, but as the government shutdown continues, more classes could be canceled or postponed, according to the weather service.

'I’m ready to get started,” she said. “I will spend a few weeks getting a feel for the job, evaluating the department and observing.'

A 2015 Harvard study found that self-defense gun use is rare — victims use guns in less than 1 percent of contact crimes. That same year, there were more than 9,000 criminal homicides involving a gun, compared with just 265 justifiable homicides involving a private citizen using a firearm.

The notification system would send out identifying information — such as license plate numbers — for the public to help locate suspects in situations where a law enforcement officer is killed, seriously injured, threatened with death or serious injury, or missing in the line of duty.

Some cities have taken significant steps to make those buildings safer by requiring costly retrofitting aimed at protecting those inside and preserving the housing supply. But many others have ignored the seismic threat.

The WarnMe-Aggie Alert sends text and email messages to UC Davis students and staff and is designed to alert 70,000 people. But the system initially notified only a fraction of those people about the events unfolding less than a mile from the campus and locked campus public safety officials out of some notification lists.

City Commissioner Joe Hay Jr. was concerned about the difficulty first responders were having communicating with dispatch.

The filing also might set the stage for PG&E’s sale, though it’s also possible that California lawmakers could eventually attempt to help the company.

'People in these zones SHOULD GO NOW because it is the safest time to leave,' an alert from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Riverside County Fire Department said.

On one occasion, representatives from a local tow company reported waiting between 30 and 40 minutes for an ambulance to respond to an automobile accident.