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Sheriff’s office awarded federal grant for emergency response boat Comments

Island Weekly The San Juan County Sheriff’s Office announced that it has been awarded a Federal Port Security Grant of up to $785,000 to acquire an emergency response boat to be available to fire ...

Grant funds Wash. police training for domestic violence, stalking

US Official News Olympia, Wash. — Washington State University and Pullman police will participate in training Nov. 1 and 2 to respond to domestic violence and stalking. The training, hosted by Alternatives ...

Video: Swarm of mini-choppers assists police in Japan Video

By PoliceOne Staff Mini choppers that assisted in an emergency drill conducted by Japanese police may find themselves a more permanent place on the force after the experiment's success. In a video ...

New tool allows disaster modeling and simulation systems to share data

First responders participating in disaster exercises usually have to rely on disaster modeling and simulation to imagine how something like a damaged building might look following an earthquake or terror ...

App for bomb and IED defense

Every law enforcement agency deals with bomb threats now and again. Most of them are just that — threats — with no device behind them. Even so, few cops are willing to bet people’s lives ...

Growing number of communities using database for dispatchers

Kevin Pieper USA TODAY A man who called 911 in Nashville recently was too ill to speak to the dispatcher. That could have been a life-threatening situation, says Duane Phillips, director of Emergency Communications ...

Thousands of wildfire warnings undelivered in Colo. Comments

Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — More than 20,000 evacuation calls were never delivered to residents in the path of a wildfire that destroyed about 350 homes around Colorado Springs last ...

Portable emergency shelters that won't break the bank Comments

Whether you endorse global warming, the end of the world as predicted by the Mayan Calendar, or the coming Zombie Apocalypse (or not), it’s evident we are experiencing an unusual number of natural ...

New Ford truck can tackle criminals, fires Comments

Ford's Special Service Vehicle package for its F-150 pick-up can turn the vehicle into a police, fire or rescue truck. ...

NJ city shows off $12 million in vehicles and gear that federal grants paid for

By Terrence T. McDonald The Jersey Journal JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Jersey City officials hosted a show-and-tell Wednesday of roughly $12 million in new fire trucks, police vehicles and other emergency-management ...

Assembly plant shooting proves turning point for regional interoperability

OakWIN consists of 47 tower sites and features high-quality, digital trunking capabilities for more than 5,000 police, fire, and EMS personnel. ...

Pressure builds for police, civilian drone flights Comments

By Joan Lowy Associated Press WASHINGTON — Heads up: Drones are going mainstream. Civilian cousins of the unmanned military aircraft that have tracked and killed terrorists in the Middle East and ...

Easing communication with cognitive radio

In the wake of the season’s most devastating hurricane, a major metropolitan area reaches out to nearby smaller towns for law enforcement and firefighting assistance. Communication between the city’s ...

NC city to build wireless network for police, fire

Officials say people surfing the web on smart phones has led to problems for police and fire departments ...

WV State Police unveils mobile disaster command center

Agency realized they needed a way to organize state troopers at locations where cellphone service is limited ...

10 years after 9/11: When will D-Block be done? Video

At 0700 hours today, I was 48 floors above Ground Zero, peering down into the construction site and 9/11 Memorial and saying a silent prayer for the heroes we lost that dreadful day in September. I had ...

Calif. Bay Area responders still not on same radio frequency

Progress has been hampered by high costs, intergovernmental wrangling, multilayered bureaucracy and technology that's still evolving ...

Calif. bill would let 911 dispatchers accept photos, videos, texts Comments

A group of cities in California are moving to implement "Next-Generation 9-1-1" systems ...

‘Virtual escort’ app to aid campus police Comments

University police are adding an emergency situation mobile application that streams audio and video ...

FBI secretly blows up SUV in Times Square bomb simulation Comments

By Amy Worden and Kathleen Brady Shea The Philadelphia InquirerHARRISBURG, Pa. — If a test vehicle is blown up in the remote reaches of central Pennsylvania and nobody hears it, did it really explode?In ...