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The county in Texas Hill Country accepted the funds from the state following last summer's deadly flooding on the Guadalupe River. Neighboring Kerr County accepted a similar state grant this week. -
By responding to 911 calls involving mental health crises with a specialized team including a clinical social worker, the program cut hospitalization rates. Permanent funding may be on the way.
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The Flathead County Sheriff's Office is set to receive a new remote underwater vehicle after getting approval from county commissioners on Tuesday.
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The new system replaces two CAD systems that were run separately by the Police and Fire departments. The system lets each share critical data and get 911 dispatch calls first-hand and in real time, unlike the previous set-up.
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Service animals have become common inside emergency call centers throughout the country in recent years. Police departments bring service animals in for visits at call centers after dispatchers have dealt with traumatic events in their communities.
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There are many benefits to having the texting feature. One communications center manager said a good example was by a child who recently used texting, as the safest method in the moment, to report a domestic disturbance.
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A new multidisciplinary group is hoping to start a conversation that can answer questions about new concerns specific to using drones in the nation's most densely populated metropolitan areas.
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Students strongly support having school resource officers in their buildings. On a recent survey, 97 percent of high school juniors in the St. Paul district said it was a “good idea” to post a police officer in their school.
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Since Tucson combined police and fire communications centers and upgraded the technology used to dispatch multiple units from different stations, hold times for 911 calls to police have been cut by three-fourths.
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California is famous for its catastrophic earthquakes and wildfires, but they aren't the state’s only natural hazards. The state also has a dozen restive volcanoes that stretch nearly from one end of the state to the other.
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The calls that were received originated from a Tallahassee-based Florida Division of Emergency Management number due to a default mode in the software. The testing provided valuable information about the system.
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The city of Dayton, Ohio and Premier Health have teamed up to try to find alternative ways to serve and provide care to some high-frequency users of 911 and hospital emergency departments. Nearly 300 people have called 911 at least 10 times in the last two years.
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Connecticut legislators are working to extend workers’ compensation coverage for post-traumatic stress disorder. Lawmakers now look to cover emergency medical personnel, dispatchers and state prison guards.
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Of the 90,000 or so dams in the U.S., at least 1,688 are considered high-hazard and in poor or unsatisfactory condition. Those and other dams endanger tens of thousands of lives of people who are unaware of the risk.
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Although more than 9,800 U.S. agencies are on board with the nationwide public safety communications platform FirstNet, a debate persists about the very issue that FirstNet is designed to solve: interoperability.
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The Android Team Awareness Kit was originally developed by the military for situational awareness and has been deployed by the Corona Fire Department as it responds to wildfires, search and rescue and other calls.
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The goal is to better understand interactions between the body, clothing and various materials when exposed to different extreme conditions, including intense heat, and to use that knowledge for next-generation gear.
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Through two grants totaling $140,000, the program will fund over a year of service from 16 trained officers. Participating officers will respond to mental health-related calls to ensure safety for all involved.
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The system lets people under duress communicate with dispatchers via text rather than through a normal phone call. While not the optimal form of communication, it's been a lifeline when other options were unavailable.
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Nationwide, the AP review of federal data and reports obtained under state open records laws identified 1,688 high-hazard dams rated in poor or unsatisfactory condition as of last year in 44 states and Puerto Rico.
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Andrei Mojica, 17, was in his AP government class going over a worksheet when his teacher went outside and saw people running. Nobody in class panicked until somebody opened their door and said: "There's a shooter on campus."
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