Emergency Management
Emergency Management is a critical function of local and state government agencies, involving the planning, coordinating, and executing responses to natural disasters, public health crises, and other emergencies. Effective emergency management ensures that communities are prepared, resilient, and able to recover quickly from unexpected events. This directory provides articles on emergency management and related topics like Public Safety, which explores broader strategies for protecting communities and ensuring their well-being during crises.
31 residents died in the Christmas 2022 storm that dumped over 50-inches of snow with hurricane-force winds
Charleston firefighters faced three bad hydrants and had to wait on tankers from neighboring FDs
With social media accelerating the spread of information, officers are having to find new ways to inform the public during critical incidents
After last year’s blockbuster hurricane disasters, NOAA is sending their Hurricane Hunters aircraft fleet on tour to five cities ahead of the 2019 hurricane season to increase hurricane awareness.
Government agencies on Cisco’s Kinetic for Cities IoT platform can now have Carbyne’s cloud-based NG911 call-handling ecosystem, or an NG911 rich data plugin for legacy systems.
Each year during the second week of April, public safety telecommunicators are honored. Here are three ways to thank them publicly
Mobile communications centers have and continue to evolve with technology and MCC design innovations.
Establishing large event security communications plans can serve your organization well in both planned and unplanned events.
The Iowa National Guard and private companies are hauling fresh water and bottled water into Hamburg and Glenwood after Midwest floods caused drinking water treatment plants to shut down.
While waters recede in the Midwest, levees are still breaching and dams are releasing water. The prospect of additional snow melt and precipitation makes additional flooding likely.
The National Institute of Building Sciences found that communities lagging on adoption of the 2018 International Residential Code and 2018 International Building Code risk public safety and economic losses in potential future wind and flood damage.
On the GAO’s high risk list: The federal government must release the HUD rules that would get federal disaster mitigation funding (DRRA) to the most impacted areas immediately.
The Minnesota Army National Guard will provide helicopter support to flood-stricken Nebraska.
FirstNet services, devices and training prepare first responders and emergency communications at the Citizen Potawatomi Tribe’s annual FireLake Fireflight Balloon Festival in Shawnee, Oklahoma.
A new primer is available that helps address Project 25 (P25) interfaces that enhance public safety radio interoperability. Also, DHS has extended its P25 ISSI and CSSI conformance requirements comment period.
The first dispatcher reclassification request was rejected in 2016 by the federal government due to a lack of understanding about the training and administration requirements of their first responder duties.
When a 911 dispatcher is alerted to a cardiac arrest victim, in addition to sending an ambulance, they will also provide instructions for using a defibrillator delivered by a drone to allow emergency action to be taken faster than paramedics can arrive.
The 911 SAVES Act would update OMB’s 911 dispatcher classification to reflect the role in directing emergency response and providing lifesaving emergency medical instruction, increasing training, funding and occupation protection.
Carbyne and RapidSOS are partnering to deliver enhanced caller location data to enhance emergency response.
