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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FEMA allotted St. Clair County more than $50 million to help it respond to and recover from COVID. The money came from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds program authorized by the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
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FEMA provided millions in relief for emergency rent, home repairs, hotel stays and other disaster-caused expenses, said Alberto Pillot, a spokesperson for the federal disaster-relief agency.
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There are lessons to be gleaned from the rubble left behind, from the water marks that are as high as 15 feet branding Fort Myers buildings to the roads washed away as far as 50 miles inland in Arcadia because of river flooding.
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School leaders say the guidelines are designed to make schools more secure. For instance, visitors would be required to be accompanied to their destination by a staff member, and the principal may assign a person to be with them while they’re at the school.
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The cost-cutting maneuver spurred a public safety crisis across Wichita and surrounding areas, as reported in The Eagle's "Unresponsive" investigative series in 2021. That investigation spurred the resignation of two EMS leaders.
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With the press of a button, 911inform can lock down a school or other establishment, send a message to local police that includes maps of the subject buildings and live video feed to MDTs, and open up a chat for users.
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Alaska's cutting-edge drone program will empower emergency responders to reach remote terrain, saving lives through the integration of aerial and geographic information systems.
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Walker was shot twice in the chest, with one of the bullets hitting him close to the heart, and one in the shoulder. Doctors operated on him to remove bullet fragments but had to leave some in his body.
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One of the thousands of calls that flooded into Ingham's central dispatch on the night of Feb. 13 could lead to felony charges after a man claimed he was friends with the MSU shooter and had placed explosives on campus.
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The release of the 31-page document comes on the heels of the Monadnock Region's own EMS landscape shift, with last week's closure of R.J. DiLuzio Ambulance Service after 71 years in operation.
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The World Health Organization has downgraded the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, but WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday that the virus remains a "global health threat."
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The agency previously offered an online reporting tool, but it was too buggy to use effectively. It was duplicating information within the police department's data management system, so the agency took it offline.
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In a report published by the Pittsburgh Collaboratory for Water Research, Education and Outreach, University of Pittsburgh researchers discovered that most train derailments in the region occur near major rivers.
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Disasters bring out the best in most of us, and inevitably after a disaster scores of people want to donate and help. Unfortunately, there are plenty of bad actors who are ready to take advantage of people’s emotions.
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Many say they are perplexed and frightened that state and federal officials don’t seem to be taking the threat seriously, since the federal government has estimated that flooding would cause $6 billion worth of damage.
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Presidio County, Texas, now offers AI-powered live audio language translation technology that translates the caller’s audio and provides a transcript of both the caller’s and the dispatcher’s questions in real time.
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Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection spokeswoman Colleen Connolly said the department’s Emergency Response Team was working at the crash in the Drums area of Luzerne County.
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Climate change and management practices have left the Wildland Urban Interface with dangerous fuel loads that burn year after year, causing more destruction and death. A new, unified approach is needed to stem the tide.
