Public Safety
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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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City officials had talked about putting a 3.5-mill emergency-services levy on the spring ballot. But Townsend said that amount would not be sufficient to fund more staff and avoid temporary station closures, which have continued into the fall, records show.
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The Health and IT Services departments collaborated to develop the POD PreCheck and the POD Locator apps if the state needs to distribute medication to the public quickly, such as during an anthrax attack at a large event.
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The district will be paid for with property tax increases and will allow the current dispatch center in Corvallis to increase from 17 employees to 28. Backers say the increase is critical to improving county emergency response.
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The San Bernardino Police Department has deployed Dragon speech-recognition software that lets officers and detectives speak into a microphone that translates that language into a report, recognizing department codes.
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Developing safe schools within the Framingham, Mass., school district is a two-prong approach that includes a visitor management system and student IDs, but also a ‘social, emotional learning’ curriculum.
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The likelihood of surviving a disaster is increased by good planning before the disaster, from securing property and having a clear crisis communication plan, to forming a post-disaster action plan and backing up files.
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In Garfield County, Colo., the R&D branch of the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control has established the Technodrome, a drone-testing space that appears to be a national first.
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Russ Brown, public information officer for Yuba County, said that while earthquakes are not one of the top natural disaster concerns for this area, the county has plans in place should the area be affected by one.
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A police affidavit in the case said that Jaimie Ortiz, also the mother of Malachi Ortiz, who’s facing second-degree murder charges in his father’s death, told police that she tried to call 911 several times but kept getting voicemail.
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They provide 24-hour service during the fall and spring semesters; in the summer they have staff on campus. The group doesn't have an ambulance, but instead uses an ATV that was specially equipped to hold a stretcher.
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She is the only full-time female firefighter in the Acushnet, Mass., department. As of Aug. 1, there were 48 employees, 11 of them women. They are on-call firefighters and part-time paramedics and EMTs.
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Flaring is a safety procedure to burn off excess gas. At the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Martinez, flaring stopped at 6:30 a.m. Portions of the refinery shut down after the quake and things restarted early Tuesday.
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In response to complaints from students and teachers that monthly emergency drills are traumatizing students, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission agreed to recommend they be reduced to six a year.
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Students worked non-stop for more than 24 hours to develop apps in the following categories: public safety, the opioid crisis and improved engagement between first responders and the communities they serve.
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First Responders repeatedly answer calls to accidental overdoses, and the stress from feeling responsible — along with other factors — put police, fire and EMS right in the middle of the opioid epidemic.
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Thousands of medically fragile Northern California PG&E customers were anxious about this week’s outages, as they hurried for backup energy sources for the equipment to stay mobile, refrigerate medications, or even stay alive.
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Organizations could lose millions — or billions — of dollars from physical security threats, natural disasters, terrorism and cyberattacks that could impact their brand, safety and security of employees and the public.
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North Carolina has begun implementing its Next Generation 911 system, which will ensure callers are able to access 911 services no matter where they are or the communication technology they use, according to officials.
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