Public Safety
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The Osceola County Board of Commissioners approved the purchase of new portable and dual band radios at a cost of $330,552 during its meeting Dec. 16, by a vote of 5-1. -
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.
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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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Several businesses and public entities have banded together to share camera feeds and sensor data in an effort to identify security threats early.
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The idea centers on creating a new public safety campus that combines police and fire headquarters, as well as a space that could be a command post during bad weather or other emergencies.
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The website will strengthen the Greensboro, N.C., Police Department's partnership with communities by keeping them updated about neighborhood crimes.
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125 firefighters from 19 departments used 35 pieces of apparatus, which were pumping 8,000 to 10,000 gallons of water a minute to put out the blaze at a vacant mill building.
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Structural changes also alleviated some of the problems three years later during Hurricane Ike and should help the university the next time a major storm strikes Southeast Texas.
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Training officer Joel Landis with the Somerset County, Pa., Hazmat Team helped land federal funding to organize a project for responders to prepare for railroad emergencies.
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In response to several high-profile Amtrak accidents, the federal government is imposing a hard deadline for train services to upgrade their safety features.
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Office buildings will go empty in the days ahead because employees will be blocked from driving into the city's core. Courts and schools will be closed. Hospitals have canceled elective operations.
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After mounting public pressure for law enforcement to be equipped with body cameras, Baltimore County will roll out equipment starting summer of 2016.
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Firefighter Classic offers multiple courses over its three days.
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If practice shapes performance, a generation of local residents was ready only to deal with false alarms and minor storms in September 2005.
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State may be the first with a law on the books, but other states don’t need new laws to deploy weaponized drones.
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Mindful of an evolving health crisis among volunteers, the Firemen's Association of the State of New York is calling for a 'presumptive law' that would provide volunteers with many of the health benefits afforded their career counterparts.
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The National Weather Service said several points along the coast were beginning to see tide fluctuations, which could continue for several hours.
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The clinic also served as a state-approved emergency management training exercise to test the county’s efficiency in handling mass vaccination or emergency scenarios.
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Attempting to contain and control the fire are some 1,400 personnel from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, state prison camps, community fire departments and wildland firefighters from Colorado.
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There needs to be some regulation before an accident occurs and the whole industry is brought to a screeching halt.
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There are also no standard operating procedures across departments. This can result in 43 different ways to potentially manage a fire and the potential for confusion if a department is called in to aid another at a fire scene.
