Bay County is offering a free course for residents to join the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). The CERT program was created after Hurricane Michael in 2018 to assist in disaster response and ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — A new six-month pilot program was launched Tuesday to help reduce the number of emergency room visits and better coordinate emergency response in Grand Rapids. The program ...

I went behind the scenes with T-Mobile's emergency management teams to see how the mobile carrier responds to a catastrophe and restores communications. Jeff Carlson writes about mobile technology for ...

WSU President Elizabeth Cantwell said she arrived in Pullman expecting major turbulence in higher education, but not the scale of disruption she now sees. Man charged with organized retail theft after ...

ST. CLOUD, Fla. – St. Cloud welcomed some new members to the force: drones. The police department is the first in the region to launch a “Drone as First Responder” program. The agency has used drones ...

Since March, Waymo, the subsidiary of Alphabet, has been testing its autonomous vehicles in Nashville with and without operators in the driver’s seat. Now the company is set to take the next step. In ...

When we think about timeliness in police, fire and emergency medical services, we often think of response times. And even though it’s recently been pointed out to us that there are other important ...

An International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) team of experts has concluded a ten-day mission to review Latvia’s preparedness and response framework for nuclear and radiological emergencies. The ...

The State Department is deploying emergency teams to the Caribbean to help in the response to Hurricane Melissa, which has battered Jamaica and nearby island nations. “In response to catastrophic ...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has launched a revised Emergency Response Best Practices Handbook, which, for the first time, includes detailed guidance on family assistance. Family ...

(KRON) — Almost a third of 9-1-1 calls in Oakland are answered after 60 seconds. These response times of the Oakland Police Department have received growing concern from residents and businesses. A ...

ATLANTA — Georgia Tech has launched a groundbreaking program that will use drones as first responders to 911 calls. The program, officially launched on Monday, aims to improve response times and ...