Public Safety
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City Council is considering two options that would charge for paramedic care provided by the Monterey Fire Department when ambulance transport is needed. Some are concerned it would discourage people from calling 911. -
Gov. Bob Ferguson said he would request an expedited emergency declaration from the federal government, seeking to unlock federal resources and financial support, as flooding continues in Western Washington this week.
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When the Eaton Fire broke out in the foothills near Altadena, the Los Angeles County Fire Department did not have access to a satellite-based fire-tracking program regularly used by other agencies.
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The effects will be hotter, drier and more extreme weather that will spark massive insect outbreaks, tree and plant die-offs, bigger and more costly wildfires.
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Amid an already rainier-than-usual winter, heavy rains last week triggered the controversial "back pumping" of water from South Florida's vast farming region.
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The United Nations health agency made the decision after convening an panel of experts in Geneva amid reports from Brazil linking the virus to microcephaly, a birth defect of the brain in which babies are born with abnormally small heads.
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As tens of thousands of Super Bowl 50 fans descend on the Bay Area this week, anyone needing urgent medical attention should brace themselves for even more crowded emergency rooms.
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Concern over the virus has been escalating as the cases, spreading rapidly through Latin America and the Caribbean, have made their way to the U.S.
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'There's this view out there that we messed up. We didn't. We did the right thing.'
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The city's police department is partnering with St. Louis Accident Reconstruction to use its surveying equipment as an economical way to provide digital records of shooting scenes. Their devices and precise measurements let detectives create electronic three-dimensional models.
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Law enforcement agencies nationwide seek answers to mounting video storage issues.
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Even though every cop will likely wear a recording device in the not-too-distant future, a new report reveals there's little consensus about how to use them.
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For years, most requests for mental health information have been caught in a legal stalemate between law enforcement needs and health facilities’ concerns about patients’ privacy.
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Audits of three entities have been ongoing since last year and were included in an end-of-year roundup of investigations and other projects undertaken by the inspector general’s office.
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People hit the empty streets to see the snow and were joined by emergency responders, snowplows, National Guard Humvees and others for whom the snow did not mean a day off from work.
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Storm unleashed hurricane-force winds and paralyzed life for residents of at least 20 states from Georgia to Massachusetts.
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The storm is expected to end Saturday morning after dumping more than a foot of snow in many places.
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Washington’s winter weather’s incompetence stretches from local governments who never bothered to salt the roads Wednesday night to locals who had raided local groceries of every last leaf of lettuce.
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The National Weather Service has already issued a blizzard watch for Washington, D.C., New York City, and parts of Long Island and New Jersey.
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The software, hardware and communications networks, more and more of them based on mobile systems, can equip officers with enforcement and investigative tools for use in the field.
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A “safe room” — a bulletproof, ultra-secure confine that can cost more than $500,000 to build — is starting to become a part of the suite of amenities.
