Public Safety

If practice shapes performance, a generation of local residents was ready only to deal with false alarms and minor storms in September 2005.

State may be the first with a law on the books, but other states don’t need new laws to deploy weaponized drones.

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.

The National Weather Service said several points along the coast were beginning to see tide fluctuations, which could continue for several hours.

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.

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.

There needs to be some regulation before an accident occurs and the whole industry is brought to a screeching halt.

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.

Bark beetles probably exacerbated the fire that ravaged parts of California over the weekend.

The training benefits the firefighters as much as the med students.

It consists of clear silhouettes of a firefighter, a medical responder and a police officer against deep blue fading into deep red stained glass.

Emergency services operations are doing well, but are stretched and that California has asked for firefighting help from Nevada and Oregon, and has reached out also to Utah, Colorado and Washington states.

9/11 and other recent high-profile events raised the profile and importance of emergency management.

So far this year, the Florida Forest Service has authorized 1,400 burns covering 52,000 acres.

On the 14th anniversary of 9/11/01, there are plenty of reasons to be thankful regarding public safety in America. And yet, there is also a growing list of cyber threats that are grabbing news headlines. We talked with Dr. Andy Ozment, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Assistant Secretary, who is the new point person for the National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC).

Crime is down, but Bratton warns of multiple terrorism threats including 'known wolves and lone wolves.'

It will be years yet before FirstNet is found in public safety jurisdictions nationwide, but JerseyNet is one of the first looks at what form the first responder network will take.

The 168-foot-wide, steel-reinforced, concrete dome outside St. Joseph High School was designed to shelter evacuees from hurricane winds, but doubles as a gym.