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RTD and other agencies hold emergency preparedness drill along G-Line route

WHEAT RIDGE, Colo. – While many wait for RTD’s G-Line to start operations, there was plenty of activity along its tracks on Saturday. The district, Denver Transit Partners, Arvada Fire and other first ... read more

Arsenic and old radios: A flood of post-9/11 funding helps Maine strengthen public health and emergency preparedness

The money has come primarily to two state agencies ... has allowed Maine, other states and the nation as a whole to significantly strengthen essential public health and emergency preparedness programs ... read more

Giving back, Feb. 24

The donations went to 100 local hunger relief organizations, eight Children’s Miracle Network hospitals, more than 2,500 schools, 40 United Way agencies, several local USO chapters, the Wounded Warrio... read more

Governor Markell Issues Limited State of Emergency, Mandatory Evacuation Order to Include Residents in Areas Most at Risk

These factors, along with the potential ... as well as books and games or other items to keep themselves and their families occupied,” said Jamie Turner, director of the Delaware Emergency Management ... read more

U.S., Canada conduct Bering Strait spill drill

A Coast Guard skimming system was successfully deployed from a Canadian vessel participating in the drill, but bad weather also prevented deployment of a large ship emergency towing ... the Russia's A... read more

ARES E-Letter Issues

The net was held on a new repeater system donated to the county's emergency management agency ... the investment made by government agencies, the volunteer assets of ARES® are still called on for comm... read more

Dr. Gridlock

Hi Dr. Gridlock - thanks for taking my question. I take the Orange/Silver line ... big emergency experience was 9/11. We relied heavily on Metrorail to get people home. Each July 4, the local law enfo... read more

Dakota Access builder bungling $4.2 billion Ohio pipeline

In that case, Energy Transfer needed a single approval to complete construction — a federal easement allowing it to drill beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation. For Rover, the hold . ... read more

Swollen rivers begin falling across Northeast

The community is little more than a post office and some houses standing along Route 100, a highway popular in the fall ... when people ask about the home he built himself 16 years ago. Other losses i... read more

Prepare NorCal: Disaster Preparedness Resources

Here are the simple steps you can take: Keep basic supplies in an easy-to-carry emergency preparedness ... sturdy furniture, and hold on to that furniture until after the shaking stops. Learn about Gr... read more

My View: Crossing the line between school safety and stupidity

On my blog, Free-Range Kids, I asked readers to tell me what their districts were doing in reaction to the Newtown shooting and thus I heard about lots of schools reviewing their lockdown drills – whi... read more

Little Oversight for Enbridge Pipeline Route that Skirts Lake Michigan

It crosses the other three rivers less than 20 miles from the lake ... No federal or Indiana agency has authority to require the pipeline's Canadian operator, Enbridge, Inc., to move the line out of t... read more