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Local disaster alert failures hasten move toward national system

In California last month, two young children and their great-grandmother died in a wildfire that family members say they never saw coming. In January, thousands of people were panic-stricken in Hawaii ... read more

After disaster alert failures, U.S. moves toward national system

These and other critical failures have prompted a review of disaster alerts in the United States, which largely operate at a local level ... all practical purposes we don't really have a national warn... read more

Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

“You must conclude the conference is a failure,” Becker said, calling the dissenting nations “the skunks at the garden party.” Greenpeace called it a “disaster ... by “creating a national energy syste... read more

Lift Your Portfolio To New Heights With Drone Tech

For example, an elevator equipped with sensors can detect real-time failures and instantaneously alert the designated support teams ... the use cases for drones are rapidly maturing and moving towards ... read more

Earthquake Early Warning Systems Save Lives. So Why Don't We Have One?

Even before the shaking started, they had time to move to safety ... an earthquake early warning system that we've experienced is a relatively new feature courtesy of our smartphones: the Amber Alerts ... read more

Updates on Hurricane Irene

He also met with local and county ... Irene At 2 p.m. the National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center issued the following update on the status and location of Hurricane Irene, excerpted in p... read more

Gov. Abbott praises Trump for coordinating with Texas

And this is a Fox News Alert ... Then you've got the state and local governments. Then you got -- they've got to coordinate as -- and we'll have Governor Abbott on in a minute -- with the federal gove... read more

From Kaiser Health News - Latest Stories:

The local police in Auburn, N.Y., complained about hundreds ... by Republican actions to privatize the management of Medicaid in Iowa, a move that has been an absolute disaster for both patients and p... read more

Inside the Secret World of Football in North Korea

Even FIFA had trouble, and it certainly didn't know what the league system ... the local tournaments. It would be crazy. You'd get players turning up with baseball bats." At one point, it seemed Soony ... read more

Sonoma County’s 911 dispatchers write new script to handle monster wildfires

Yet Sonoma County emergency dispatchers were unprepared and understaffed for the unprecedented disaster, with few answers to give ... and opt-in messaging programs — including Nixle and SoCo Alert, wh... read more

Maria’s Bodies

This was one of three generators, each the size of a station wagon, designed as a backup system ... disaster-relief package on October 24, only $1.2 billion was earmarked specifically for Puerto Rico. ... read more

If You Want To Humble An Empire

If you want to humble an empire it ... out in real time, on fast-forward, and not with soldiers but with secretaries, security guards, lawyers, bankers, janitors. It was strange that a day of war was ... read more