Response

“God has allowed this community to survive without a fully operating hospital and an ER. He has taught us patience, built our stamina to withstand and to believe and trust in new owners to take care of us.”

The nonprofit connects chronic 911 callers to the resources they need so that fire departments aren’t tied up and those patients don’t end up having to get their health care from the emergency room.

The Honolulu Police Department doesn't track how often the 911 system gets overwhelmed enough to play an automated message. But there are times when all of HPD's emergency response operators are assisting callers.

The critical incident mapping was developed by U.S. military operations veterans and adopted for use in schools. It provides first responders with a common operating picture, allowing for a more efficient response.

One training scenario involved a 28-year-old woman who went bicycle riding in the forest with some friends and then became sick and turned around. She had intended to return to her parked car, but she never made it.

ShotSpotter software might help police get to shootings faster and collect more evidence, but a new study suggests that it doesn’t help reduce crime or shootings, although very few jurisdictions even try to measure its success.

The Apex Officer Virtual Reality system at the police science program at Hawkeye Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was first used as a firearm training tool but evolved to be a key piece of training for local cadets.

The law enforcement dispatchers used to sit in a row and now they’re arranged in a circle “so they’re able to communicate better with each other and not over the desks like they used to have to do.”

The recent storms and flooding prompted Gov. Greg Abbott to issue a disaster declaration for 29 Texas counties, including Galveston, Montgomery and Harris counties, where officials issued a voluntary evacuation order late Tuesday.

Most of the aftershocks since the 4.8 magnitude quake in April, including a 2.9 magnitude one Saturday morning, have registered below 2.0 magnitude, according to the New Jersey Office of Emergency Management.

Even with the raft of new security mandates, violence continues on campuses and schools are struggling in their role as a battleground in society’s intractable fights. Communities struggle with guns, gangs and mental health.

Students from upstate New York gathered this month at the University of Albany’s College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity to share visions of artificial intelligence in emergency response.

Construction is scheduled to begin in 2028 for the new fire station at a cost of $10.2 million, an increase of $1 million from the 2023 estimate. Washington State University will share the costs of the building.

The new program’s goal is to boost volunteer firefighter numbers in Pennsylvania — which have fallen from 360,000 in 1970 to fewer than 37,000 in 2023 — and have firefighters ready to work full-time once they are 18 years old.

Television and radio stations routinely broadcast official watches and warnings issued by the NWS. Also, wireless emergency alerts can be received through your mobile carrier from authorized government authorities.

The Multi-Tiered System of Supports is a layered approach to intervention and, when used along with other tools, can help uncover the behaviors that lead to violence and, perhaps, change them.

The sheriff's office said it has identified the step in the process behind the mistake at the county’s Emergency Communications Facility, which spread the false alert across the state's most populous county.

The map identifies locations in the city where public road or utility projects have closed streets completely or closed traffic in one direction. It also shows detours and features real-time updates.