Public Safety
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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. -
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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Police are harnessing the power of technology to help advance old investigations, and they are currently working to digitize all of their cold cases, hoping to be finished some time in early 2026.
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By modernizing its 911 system and embracing automation, El Paso is delivering faster, more efficient emergency services with tools like a bot to take non-emergency calls and real-time language translation.
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The Philadelphia Police Department is urging residents to protect their vehicles amid a wave of high-tech auto thefts targeting push-to-start vehicles with keyless fobs.
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A University of Minnesota project uses drones to examine smoke and then analyze it to understand a fire's flow patterns. It represents a significant step toward using fully autonomous drones for emergency response.
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Full public access to police scanner activity in the East Bay will soon be unavailable after Berkeley councilmembers gave the city’s police department permission to encrypt radio communications.
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Long considered more of an Eastern Washington issue, the head of the state Department of Natural Resources said Monday that about 40 percent of the fires this season were in the western part of the state.
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Researchers at Johns Hopkins hope to reduce the number of crashes and fatalities each year by using large language models to process, understand and learn from massive amounts of data.
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In a significant upgrade of care for patients who have suffered blood loss, paramedics can now provide whole blood rather than saline. Only about 1 percent of the country's EMS agencies carry whole blood.
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The program, a partnership among law enforcement in Grant County and Moses Lake, Wash., as well as the county's behavioral health organization, sends mental health professionals with police to respond to people in crisis.
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As technology has increasingly affected nearly every part of daily life, the Scranton Police Department has kept up, using tools to facilitate training, improve public safety and hasten communication.
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This was the second year of the DARPA Triage Challenge grant program, which saw teams test their AI-driven bots in disaster scenarios to help assess which victims need assistance and communicate that to first responders.
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Metro Atlanta’s biggest 911 dispatch centers are spending millions to switch their networks from copper wire to digital, enabling new features such as video feeds and precise location capabilities.
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In light of a shortage of firefighters throughout Connecticut, Northeast Fire-Rescue provides emergency medical services to communities that are having difficulties responding to 911 emergencies due to low volunteer membership.
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Mooresville, N.C., spent roughly $300,000 on drones for its police department earlier this year, purchasing two First Responder DFR drone systems from the Texas-based company, Flock Safety.
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The state will partner with SkyfireAI and CAL Analytics on a two-year pilot program to develop policies and training around the use of drones by first responders, and to assess how they can improve situational awareness.
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As artificial intelligence is increasingly used to answer 911 calls nationwide, which officials report is improving operations, people say they want more disclosure about when the AI is used.
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Federal agencies that deal with wildfires, weather and disaster response — including the National Weather Service and the Federal Emergency Management Agency — expect to see some impacts.
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The Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office will be home to the first autonomous police vehicle in the country thanks to a cruiser named PUG, or police unmanned ground.
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The free tool from the Connecticut Insurance Department lets property owners assess their risk to winds, flood and other perils that could prompt expensive repairs or insurance rate hikes.
