First Responders

The fact that police were unprepared and waited some 77 minutes to enter the school, and that Uvalde is a small community where law enforcement are always at the fore, adds another layer of grief to the situation.

The Denver Police Department, Emergency Medical Services personnel and mental health responders will receive Psychedelic Crisis Assessment and Intervention training to enhance safety and reduce risk and liability.

FEMA collected data in March 2023, and using risk assessments, created a map that shows the counties that are most at risk for wildfires. FEMA looked at community resilience and how well people prepare.

The missing girl left a note on Monday, but police are not releasing specifics of what was contained in that letter. The Alabama Law Enforcement Agency on Monday issued an Emergency Missing Alert for Alexa.

Veritone on Tuesday launched a digital evidence management system that uses artificial intelligence for object recognition, redaction and other tasks. It comes in a time of big projected growth for evidence management tech.

The money was generated from unique trends such as federal pandemic relief programs and is not a recurring appropriation. Seventy percent went to cities and towns of all sizes and to townships with more than 10,000 people.

The plan “projected and anticipated” some of the things that happened during the pandemic but having a plan on the shelf collecting dust was one of many issues highlighted in a 910-page report.

The state’s residents suffered greatly from COVID-19 with more than 3 million cases, including 33,000 deaths. Some were families in which both parents died, leaving their children as orphans.

FEMA created a map using its data and risk assessments that shows the counties across the U.S. currently considered the most and the least at risk of potential wildfires, from very low to very high.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott also called on the federal Small Business Administration to work with state and local partners on preliminary damage assessments of the wildfire that has burned more than a million acres.

Making Mobile Data Terminals in police cars more useful by allowing them to be used for drivers’ license scanning, photos and data collection for evidentiary purposes is within the scope of what agencies should be doing.

The company sells subscription-based offerings to law enforcement but, like Axon, wants to build sales in other industries such as health care and retail. With its Series A funding round closed, AI and hiring are also on Halo’s to-do list.

Clark County EMA received $2,750 to purchase a rescue boat that will be used for water-related rescues. It will kept at Tri-Township Fire & Rescue but will be used throughout the county when there is a water emergency.

Several Midwest public safety agencies this week either tested their emergency warning sirens as planned or sounded a siren as a warning of what to expect from now on; one accidentally sounded a real alarm.

The county had to declare a temporary local emergency for 911 communications, due to the loss of the primary tower, until a new tower is installed at the primary site. Communications was re-established on temporary sites.

The 15 deaths in the first two months of the year are by far the most in this time period since 2015 and almost five times the nine-year average of 3.2 deaths, according to data obtained by CT Insider.

The pop-up warming shelters were said to have achieved the goal of shuttling people inside during January’s five-day, four-night arctic freeze, but some have concerns about security at the shelters.

It’s unclear so far whether Positive Train Control, a technology that is deployed on railroad tracks to prevent such accidents, was in play during the March 2 incident and whether it would have stopped the derailment.