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All Omaha firefighters are certified EMTs but not all are certified paramedics. To make certification easier, a mobile simulation lab, jointly operated by the Omaha Fire Department and Creighton University, is coming to them. -
The deal provides Motorola Solutions with HyperYou’s agentic AI for handling nonemergency calls, as well as real-time language translation. The general idea is that AI can help alleviate call center staffing shortages.
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Louisiana’s most populous city is the latest government to have an AI agent answer 311 calls instead of a human. The shift will happen in coming months; the AI has been trained on three years of 311 calls.
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If you live in an evacuation zone, will you be able to stay with friends or family nearby who don’t — or, will you plan to go to a shelter? If you’re not in an evacuation zone, do you have a room for others to stay in?
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The Cumberland Police Department has typically between 47 and 50 officers employed at any given time. The camera system, worn in a pocket on the chest, would cost $450,000 spread over five years.
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In 2001, the historic 500-year-flood destroyed 80 percent of the downtown business district. Coffins floated through the streets of Mullens, escaping from the local funeral home covered in water.
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Gov. Jay Inslee ended the COVID-19 state of emergency on Oct. 31. However, the state Secretary of Health still has discretion to maintain a few criteria, such as masking in healthcare settings.
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Working with FEMA and other state agencies following the flood, many families opted to either remain in their damaged homes or move into mobile homes temporarily during the warm, summer months.
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To help ensure that mistakes aren’t repeated and that lessons learned are truly heeded the next time, the Pacific NorthWest Economic Region is developing a Comprehensive Regional Pandemic Resilience Roadmap.
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As a Category 1 storm at its strongest, Nicole did not exactly break records for wind ferocity or storm surge height, but it came on the heels of devastating Category 4 Hurricane Ian a mere six weeks earlier.
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Instead, the Honolulu Police Department has launched a new public site that lists most active police cases and is automatically updated every 15 minutes.
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The fire was producing a haze across Lexington early Wednesday. Maj. Jessica Bowman with the Lexington Fire Department said there are no active fire conditions in Fayette County despite the smokey conditions.
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Nicole is projected to reach hurricane strength Wednesday evening before reaching the Florida coast and turning up toward Georgia and South Carolina, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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“We are at a critical point right now with the state of our beaches…Our buffer is gone,” Jessica Fentress, coastal division director for Volusia County, said during a press conference on Monday.
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The latest advisory predicts it will become a hurricane while over the Bahamas on Wednesday night on its way to Florida with 75 mph winds and gusts up to 90 mph.
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The CDC switched up the contractors who run the national program for some 25,000 responders and survivors outside of the New York area and the prescription drug benefits for the entire program.
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Be Well is part of a national groundswell, putting mental health experts on calls that cops always took before, reducing the chance of tension-filled conflicts that can go deadly.
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"Most everything on this radio is obsolete. Most of the parts on these radios are no longer being manufactured. So it makes them difficult to get them fixed if something breaks or no longer works."
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Survivors of natural disasters — especially the hurricanes that have hit the East Coast and the Gulf of Mexico the past two decades — report years of neglect, chaos and mismanagement of emergency response.
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The train was enroute from Bellevue in Sandusky County to Conway, Pennsylvania. It had 237 cars and four engines, according to Norfolk Southern spokesperson Connor Spielmaker.
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“The groups of people that are going to be really, really affected are those marginalized communities that already have a difficult time accessing vaccines."
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