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The Extreme Heat Emergency Act would classify extreme heat as a major disaster under the Stafford Act, which recognizes certain events as disasters eligible for a presidential Major Disaster Declaration.
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Law enforcement officials in many cities that have deployed automatic license plate recognition cameras say they help solve crimes, but critics are skeptical and raise concerns about privacy.
Emergency management officials used that data to create their own internal outage map to track who was without power, a feat that took half a day's time the Tuesday after the storm and took time away from being able to respond to those in need.
The new FCC rules will require phone and Internet companies to deploy NG911 core services networks within six to 12 months of getting a request from a local call center.
Outages have hit at least eight states this year. They’re emblematic of problems plaguing emergency communications due in part to wide disparities in the systems’ age and capabilities, and in funding of 911 systems.
“Students who have experienced trauma in a variety of ways, especially gun violence, for them to be involved in a highly sensorial armed assailant drill at school could be a very negative thing.”
A floodplain map is a map showing areas of a community that are at risk of flooding. The maps are divided into zones that indicate the likelihood of flooding based on historical data and other factors.
The Vermont Public Safety Communications Task Force has partnered with Mission Critical Partners and will conduct a number of assessments on each of the state’s 38 emergency communications centers.
Following heavy rain and a series of dam breaches, and ahead of “considerable” flash flood warnings, emergency crews are racing to evacuate residents from the town, about 55 miles east of St. Louis.
The Elk Grove Police Department plans to add three aerial drones to assist in the line of duty, a trend that many law enforcement agencies have recently adopted to contribute to service.
The Presidio of Monterey Police and Fire Departments held an exercise to test their preparedness for an active shooter scenario and to practice using their strategy and communications plans.
The mapping techniques will create accurate floor plans of every building in the 573 schools, providing essential information to local first responders during a critical incident response.
One of North Carolina's largest counties is deploying a new emergency communications system from Hexagon. The exec running the 911 center — now the new president of NENA — details what will happen and what’s at stake.
There have been improvements in location accuracy in the next-generation environment that push data from the call center to the first responder, but complete NG911 deployments have been slow.
Public safety threats are increasingly blending physical violence, cyber attacks and online influence campaigns. The report calls for new law enforcement training, a national threat system and more.
Emergency responders were stationed at a mobile command center to simulate being on the scene of an accident and communicating with those in the EOC.
