Preparedness

Hurricane Margot formed Monday in the central Atlantic. Margot is expected to kick up to a Category 2 hurricane with potential top winds of 100 mph in the coming days.

It’s hard to know for sure how COVID-19 infections are trending due to home testing and relaxed data reporting requirements. However, hospitalization data reported to the CDC shows hospital admissions are on the rise.

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Because of the presence of the Somewear Grid platform technology, first responders were on-scene delivering life-saving actions within three minutes to a caddie at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am Golf Tournament in February.

The installations consist of new Cradlepoint modems and routers, allowing the PSAPs to transport critical information and ensure the data is encrypted. The new modems and routers are replacing older, aging models.

The call for conservation follows the agency’s move into emergency operations on Wednesday night. The alert was issued shortly before 8 p.m. for the first time this summer “to maintain reliability of the grid.”

The Grade Crossing Elimination Program was pitched by Gov. Mike DeWine and approved by the Ohio General Assembly in the recently passed 2024-2025 operating budget.

One of the Virgin Islands' top disaster-preparedness officials warned of developing Atlantic storms during a weekly Government House briefing on Tuesday afternoon.

Urgent pleas for people to stay home seem to have worked. California Department of Transportation data for Los Angeles and Ventura counties show that traffic on freeways during the peak of the storm fell by 30%.

Search and rescue efforts are beginning to conclude in many counties, transitioning to recovery efforts, said Kevin Guthrie, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management.

The portable telecom units from Rescue42 are being used during wildfires when the you-know-what hits the fan — which it inevitably does — and communication is lost. They can last for up to 10 days.

“Looks like we dodged a bullet, but we’ve still got some work to do to make sure the counties have what they need,” S.C. Emergency Management Division Director Kim Stenson said Thursday morning.

New Jersey Task Force 1 — made up of police, fire and emergency personnel specializing in boat water rescues — deployed to Columbia, South Carolina, on Monday night.

As Hurricane Idalia approaches the coastline in northwest Florida as a major hurricane, the storm will bring sustained winds of about 40 mph to Orange County, with gusts up to about 55 mph.

Idalia is expected to make landfall Wednesday morning along Florida’s central Gulf Coast, including cities such as Tampa and Orlando, as a Category 3 hurricane with 120 mph winds.

Officials issued the region's first tropical storm watch for a broad swath of the Southland as the cyclone's path grew more clear, likely to become the first storm of that strength to hit the region in decades.

There are numerous historical use cases that illustrate the point that drones deployed for search and rescue operations or to provide assistance to victims made great contributions to rescue efforts for limited time periods.

Fires today burn materials with more petroleum products, which produces a byproduct that causes cancer. Firefighters need to clean their gear after use and make sure that the gear has not gone past its life expectancy.