Public Safety
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While the city has used drones before, Chief Roderick Porter said the two new aerial vehicles the department is getting under a contract with security tech company Flock Safety are more advanced. -
The proposed legislation would require public agencies to delete any footage their license-plate-reader cameras, such as those sold by Flock Safety, collect within 72 hours.
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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.
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Marin County is developing a new radar station that will track atmospheric rivers and inform a network with real-time data to help officials respond to potential flooding with a more customized report.
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In a March 15 letter to Pete Buttigeg and Federal Railroad Administrator Amit Bose, elected officials expressed "deep concern" about what they called inadequate federal regulations governing the transport of hazardous materials by rail.
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Ashby, Mass., had declared a state of emergency at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, according to a Boston 25 article reposted on the town's Facebook page. The Middlesex County town received 24 to 26 inches of snow.
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Almost 66,000 customers were without power this morning, according to an outage map provided by the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. Most of these customers were located in Western Massachusetts.
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Avery, 62, and Klimpel, 49, were in the 20th hour of their 24-hour shift, another day at work for the veteran firefighters with nearly 57 years of experience between them battling blazes in Los Angeles.
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Wassel takes over as head of FirstNet after a 34-year career with the Department of Defense, where he founded the Global Public Safety Communications Working Group.
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The CSX train was traveling through New River Gorge National Park and Preserve south of Sanderson just before 5 a.m. when it struck a rockslide, caught fire and fell off the tracks, according to CSX.
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The Lexington, Ky.-Fayette Urban County Council voted Tuesday to put an after-action review into the council’s Social Services and Public Safety Committee. A date for that review has not been set.
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Officials from the state Office of Emergency Management and the California Highway Patrol, among others, are in the mountain communities helping local agencies dig residents out of their homes and clear the roads.
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"The Command Post includes state-of-the-art technology and more square footage for first responders to operate for several days at a time during an emergency."
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911 professionals invaded the nation’s capital this week to engage with each other and Congress, and to let legislators know of improvements being made to 911 services, as well as those still needed.
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"The main federal firefighting funding programs, one called AFG and one called SAFER, are at risk of being totally eliminated because their funding expires at the end of this fiscal year."
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The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, demonstrates that in spite of some efforts to mitigate derailments of hazardous materials, it hasn’t been enough to halt preventable accidents.
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When first responders arrived, they found the tanker turned off the road and its driver trapped inside. After taking off the vehicle's windshield, fire officials were able to rescue the driver.
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The federally funded, four-day training event put participants through the paces of a hypothetical scenario. After setting the stage with a mass public emergency, teams dove into tabletop simulations to role play how they would respond.
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Representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention visited approximately 350 household over the weekend.
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More than a half-inch of ice accumulated in some areas, especially in Michigan where most of the power outages occurred, according to PowerOutage.us. About 780 U.S. flights have been canceled Thursday.
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The derailment spilled hazardous chemicals into streams near the state border. And the controlled explosion did release a large plume of black smoke into the atmosphere. No humans have been reported injured or killed.
