Public Safety
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Iowa City and Johnson County are taking part in a pilot program that will aim to develop a protocol that will serve as another response to 911 or other crisis line calls typically handled by local law enforcement. -
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.
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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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At least 14 people were reportedly injured after the fire engulfed several floors of the hotel a couple of hours before the New Year fireworks started in the neighboring Burj Khalifa.
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VDOT and public safety officials are concerned that increased congestion could delay emergency response.
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'The call started out as a benign dumpster fire, then it turned out that was just a distraction, and it was actually an active shooter.'
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Authorities across the area were still documenting the damage Sunday morning and meteorologists were working to confirm just how many tornadoes touched down across North Texas.
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The declaration activates the state’s Emergency Operations Plan and allows Alabama to qualify for federal aid to cope with potential flooding issues
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State officials, here, say they have no specific plans to handle derailments of trains carrying Bakken crude oil.
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After the triple meltdown in Fukushima in 2011, Japan shut down all 48 of its viable commercial reactors in light of the crisis. But attempts are now being made to bring many back online.
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The multi-agency council said a total of 65,318 families or 289,616 people in Central Luzon, Mimaropa, Calabarzon and Eastern Visayas are still staying in evacuation centers.
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There have been dead spots in the radio connection in several places within the county for several years.
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The tip line is one of four recommendations a school-shootings task force presented to lawmakers as part of a daylong set of sessions on public safety and shootings.
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DHS warned of individuals and homegrown violent extremists who may be encouraged or inspired to target public events or places.
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A day after that decision, which has drawn some criticism because the threat turned out to be a hoax, key players acknowledged that their effort could have been better coordinated.
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Measures will ramp up security at county facilities, seek state and federal funding assistance and extend paid leave for environmental health employees.
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The SUV is one of two St. Louis County police vehicles equipped with computers with software that predicts where crime is most likely to happen based on mathematical algorithms.
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It was six minutes after 3 on Wednesday, Dec. 2. Hours earlier, a masked man and woman, clad in black and armed with military-style rifles, had stormed into a holiday party a few miles away in neighboring San Bernardino. Fourteen people were dead
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Authorities said they planned a search operation of all of the LAUSD’s more than 900 schools. The nation’s second-largest school district has more than 700,000 students.
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The Consumer Electronics Association predicts that 700,000 drones will be sold by year’s end.
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Response to crises will forever be matched against New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's response to 9/11.
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