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The Oregon Department of Emergency Management is hosting free webinars this spring for anyone interested in helping rural communities prepare for and respond to disasters such as floods, extreme heat and wildfires.
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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.
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Farmers, developers and officials of the $4 billion Central Arizona Project said they still aren’t satisfied with various provisions in a proposed drought contingency plan aimed at propping up imperiled Lake Mead.
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Panelists at a school safety summit Monday in Helena readily admitted as much. But as they discussed things like emergency planning, facilities, and arming staff, a consistent thread ran though their conversations on the first day of the 2019 legislative session.
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Appearing at a Cal Fire station on his first full day in office, Newsom said the new funding would come on top of $200 million already earmarked for forestry management by the Legislature last fall, bringing the total to $305 million in new spending.
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Last updated more than a decade ago, the maps that highlight the areas most at-risk for wildfires are being painstakingly re-evaluated in a state more susceptible to fire than ever before.
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The Environmental Modeling Center in College Park, Md., which studies how to put better physics into hurricane forecast models to increase intensity and track accuracy, is almost entirely shutdown.
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The 2018 Maryland Safe to Learn Act passed by the Maryland General Assembly last April, mandates that all Maryland school systems implement an active assailant training.
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Adair County officials have yet to agree on the mechanism to increase funds to the E-911 center. Funding has continued to decline as residents move away from taxable landline phones.
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Though the original plan was to have the new public safety communication system ready by Dec. 31, officials are still working out bugs and finalizing contracts to use state infrastructure.
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The tool includes an interactive map and a list of how many stream gauges are expected to be nearing flood stage, or have minor flooding, moderate flooding or major flooding.
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Smartphone users will finally have access to the ShakeAlertLA app, an early warning system meant to give residents in the earthquake-prone city seconds to prepare for an impending event.
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The regulations on rebuilding won't apply to every floodplain homeowner though. Any home reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition or other improvement must meet the regulations only if the work equals or exceeds 50 percent of the building's market value.
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A news release from the Yakima Valley Office of Emergency Management on Thursday evening urged county residents to text 911 or call 509-248-0430 or 509-457-0207 until further notice if they needed to reach 911 operators.
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"Wind expected out of South 20-30 MPH sustained with gusts up to 45 MPH. (Strong winds may blow down limbs, trees, and power lines. Unsecured holiday decorations may be damaged or blown away. Scattered power outages are expected," the National Weather Service said.
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An eight-month LA Times investigation found that government officials did not heed decades-old warnings to build bigger basins that could have made the mudslides far less catastrophic.
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The City Council passed the ordinance in October. It would require owners of brick and similar buildings to prominently post signs with the disclosure: “This is an unreinforced masonry building. Unreinforced masonry buildings may be unsafe in the event of a major earthquake.”