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.
The WalletHub report compares 45 of the largest U.S. cities to identify which cities are grappling with the most significant homicide rates
Lexington officials will review the city’s response to windstorms that knocked out power to thousands, and damaged many homes and businesses
“If we have insufficient resources for our daily operations, we are truly behind the eight ball when severe weather and other emergencies occur,” a union rep said
Santa Clara County offers an opening argument on how loss of data speed hampered wildfire emergency response in net neutrality lawsuit brought against the FCC.
A community’s small businesses can weather disasters by formalizing disaster recovery plans that maintain essential operations and pay the bills.
From managing requests to running rich reports and engaging citizens regularly and during disasters, 311 data systems are evolving government operations
Disparate sources of data, when integrated, enhance first responder situational awareness and ultimately, emergency response.
There’s a free online disaster training library for emergency planning and disaster response and recovery.
Families need to know both when to set hurricane preparations in motion as well as when it’s too late to evacuate
The Coast Guard will continue Department of Homeland Security operations unpaid during the 2018 government shutdown. Civilian support has been sent home.
Climate change, connectivity, value-based reimbursements will shape the coming year in EMS service and delivery.
Operation Convergent Response 2018 put Verizon and other technologies in local hands through a series of lifelike emergency simulations, while testing tech vendors for readiness.
A step on the path to smart city solutions, Los Angeles is partnering with AT&T to deploy small cells that advance 5G communications.
A five county area of Texarkana now has text 911 service for most major mobile device carriers.
Congress asked how much it would cost to upgrade the nation’s 911 call centers to NG911 capabilities.
Former 9-1-1 operator and member of the Congressional NextGen 9-1-1 Caucus, Rep. Norma J. Torres (D–Calif.) explains that granting public safety status may help address the growing emergency dispatcher shortage.
Greg Friese of EMS1.com offers public safety operations perspective after the Thousand Oaks, California, shooting that can advise local government emergency planning and inform MCI response training.
Houses of worship are predictable mass gatherings that would benefit from life safety audits and emergency planning.
When an active shooter survives, the shooter becomes another patient for EMS to triage, treat and transport.
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