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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The state's earthquake early warning system notified nearly 100,000 people that a quake was going to strike near San Jose — and people as far away as San Francisco had as many as 18 seconds to brace themselves before it actually hit.
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At least three people, including the shooter, were killed and even more were injured following a shooting Monday at the Central Visual and Performing Arts High School in St. Louis.
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Research from top institutions, including the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Stanford University School of Medicine, show that new strains of COVID-19 are showing different symptoms from their predecessors.
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Medical examiners in Florida have so far linked 112 deaths to Hurricane Ian. Almost 60 percent of those were 65 or older. Chronic medical conditions like respiratory illnesses were contributing factors.
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The fire started on Oct. 6 at a paper plant and warehouse in Menominee, a small city on Michigan's border with Wisconsin. The warehouse was filled with bales of scrap paper and pulp towering more than 10 feet high.
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Climate migration, not just between countries but inside them, may eventually become the norm as people are forced from their homes because of flooding, drought or other natural disasters.
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Cascadia 9.0 is designed to make earthquake preparation more enjoyable. The game's name comes from the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a 600-mile fault off the Pacific coastline.
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Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue confirmed Tuesday that one of the firefighter-paramedics slept through the emergency, delaying the truck from ever leaving the station.
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Health officials have warned of another potentially devastating winter surge — especially as new, immune-evasive virus variants emerge and more people move indoors for social activities.
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"The critical fire weather conditions are in place: dry fuels, combined with low relative humidity ... along with gusty east winds," Michalski said. "It drives the rapid growth on the fires we're seeing."
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The seven-day rolling average of daily COVID-19 cases in the U.S. fell below 40,000 for the first time since mid-April on Tuesday.
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The breathing equipment — called self-contained breathing apparatus, or SCBA — consists of air tanks carried on packs worn by firefighters, with face pieces to prevent breathing super-heated air or smoke filled with toxic chemicals.
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The exercise was the culmination of more than 18 months of planning by both public and private agencies and included more than 511 participants who were evaluated over multiple days during the last week of September.
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The state's ongoing struggle to account for heat wave illnesses and deaths — despite promises to improve monitoring — has frustrated some public health experts who say the lack of timely information puts lives in jeopardy.
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In Osceola, at the Heart Memorial Library, the county’s disaster recovery center, a steady stream of residents seeking assistance after the hurricane walked in and out of the building.
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Hurricane Ian forced at least 16 hospitals from central to southwestern Florida to evacuate patients after it made landfall near the city of Fort Myers on Sept. 28 as a deadly Category 4 storm.
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James Kubik lost a childhood friend when she died in a boating accident. What’s worse is that communication equipment, including marine radios, was on board but inaccessible. It spurred Kubik to develop his own device.
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Deborah Beidel, a psychologist and University of Central Florida psychology professor, said those who found their homes uninhabitable after the storm may experience trauma responses to cope with the losses.
