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Newsby Staff WriterMay 24, 2011

Lightning Strikes Missouri Officer In Tornado Response

Lightning struck the area near where Officer Jeff Taylor, 31, was riding an ATV, after transporting a fire commander back to a command post. Officer Taylor was transported to a Springfield hospital and treated for burns and other injuries.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 27, 2011

DHS Systems Provides Demo of Deployable Shelter In May

The DRASH capabilities demonstration will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 10 and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 11. DHS Systems is located at 401 Lime Quarry Road in Madison, Ala.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 8, 2011

Feds To Issue Terror Alerts Via Facebook, Twitter

The Department of Homeland Security has indicated it will replace its color-coded, five-level system of terrorism alerts with a new two-tiered approach and will issue some public alerts via social media sites.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 1, 2011

DHS Shelters Provide Relief To Tsunami Victims

DHS Technologies is the parent company of Reeves, which manufactures the Deployable Command and Control Equipment (DC2E) and Incident Command Post (ICP) portable shelters for use by law enforcement at critical incidents.

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Newsby Staff WriterApril 14, 2009

Three Colleges to Present Emergency Management Case Studies at Campus Safety Conference

The Campus Safety Conference Emergency Management Best Practices Panel discussion will include three university officials who will provide case studies on how their individual institutions are approaching emergency management.

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Articlesby Mark G. StainbrookSeptember 1, 2005

Preparing for the "Big One"

Only you know your leadership situation. Whether you are the chief of police or an officer on the beat, you should know your area of responsibility and what is required of you when the "big one" hits, whatever that catastrophe may be.

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Articlesby Charles GaryJanuary 1, 2004

The California Wildfires

Last fall, the map of Southern California looked like that map of Nevada that goes up in flames at the start of old “Bonanza” TV reruns. On the front lines with county firefighters, law enforcement officials—particularly county sheriff’s department personnel—played a key role in protecting citizens threatened by the inferno.

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Articlesby Bob DavisJanuary 1, 2004

E Team Crisis Management

This secure communications and incident management tool is fully scaleable with a user-friendly Windows interface.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 31, 2002

Emergency Call-Takers Hired Using CritiCall Software

The Spotsylvania County Communication Center in Virginia needed to hire four emergency call-takers immediately to handle the volume of calls while handling the DC sniper case. Criticall 3.0 helped them hire the right employees for the job.

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Articlesby Dave DouglasNovember 1, 2001

Emergency Management and Emergency Operations Centers

Disasters can happen anywhere and, as so poignantly demonstrated in New York, it's our job to manage and mitigate them.

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