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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 North Hills fire came dangerously close to jumping its perimeter Sunday and burning into the area of several homes. It was ready to jump a road where it would reach “full of houses and people.”
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The new dispatch center for the Clark County Sheriff’s Office will put the county in accordance with Next Generation 911 requirements that call for dispatch services to become more advanced.
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It's been two months since the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services refused to release a hurricane plan for the Homestead detention center in Florida. Miami-Dade County is also working on a “Plan B”, leaders say.
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"EMS is not going away in the city, what will be changing is the level of service offered by the city. That decision is certainly reserved to the city ... but it's not up to us to pick up those services for them,” the county manager said.
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The UAS Drones Disaster and Public Safety Exercise, a full-scale exercise at Florida International University, gave local drone teams airtime and inexperienced pilots a chance to work in a simulated disaster scenario.
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Following widespread service breakdowns during recent wildfires, lawmakers are backing legislation to allow states to require wireless companies to upgrade systems for use during fires and other natural disasters.
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From 5G networks to specially equipped communications trucks and drones, the nation’s first responders have a growing arsenal of tech tools that keep them communicating during the worst kinds of emergencies.
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At stake was more than $9 million of a total $72 million reimbursement request that California made of the U.S. Forest Service after helping to battle wildfires on federal lands in 2018.
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The National Weather Service has issued an Excessive Heat Watch for most of Massachusetts for Saturday. The forecast weather puts residents at risk for both heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
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The Droneresponders Public Safety Alliance was formed to create a clearinghouse where public safety and emergency management officials can go to glean all of what’s known about public safety unmanned aircraft systems programs.
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Port officials stress that rebuilding the docks is becoming a time-sensitive issue. While the port survived the 7.1 magnitude Nov. 30 earthquake, it didn’t come out of the shaking unscathed.
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About 27,000 residents got notice of a shelter advisory Friday night after a fire at a former pool chemical site emitted pungent chlorine fumes in Rochester, but many residents didn’t receive the notice.
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Preliminary information shows that there was a transmission line between two power stations that failed, which caused four other power stations to go offline. The Manhattan blackout Saturday impacted up to 72,000 people.
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A technical issue linked to Century Link’s equipment, which services Pima County’s regional 911 system, left an unknown number of residents with a busy phone signal when dialing 911 between 3 a.m. and 4:25 a.m.
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'After what occurred at the airport in Fort Lauderdale and what occurred in Parkland, everyone is keenly aware that if we don’t have communication with our first responders, they’re left blind.'
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Since January, Los Angeles Police Department SWAT officers received permission from top commanders to deploy the drone cameras in six incidents, but officers only used them in four cases, said Police Chief Michel Moore.
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At the public meeting held on June 27 at Chittenango High School, Winbourne Consulting delivered its examination of the feasibility of Madison and Onondaga counties combining their 911 centers.
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The Eastern North Carolina First Responders Scholarship is open to an EMT, firefighter or police officer working east of Interstate 95. The tuition credit of $500 per six-month term is renewable for up to four terms.
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