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By Christopher Smart The Salt Lake Tribune SALT LAKE CITY — Salt Lake City's new public safety building is more than a year from its scheduled completion. But when it ...
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By Fran Spielman The Chicago Sun-Times CHICAGO — A $23 million digital radio system — purchased in 2006 under a no-bid contract awarded under questionable circumstances ...
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By Aly Van Dyke Topeka Capital-Journal TOPEKA, Kan. — Shawnee County could get a new 911 emergency radio system that allows responders to switch between encrypted and public ...
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Harold Wilson, 84, may have suffered medical emergency, collapsed into flames ...
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By Greg Bogosian FireRescue1 Staff Background The Lititz Fire Company No. 1 in Pennsylvania has been a volunteer fire department since 1894. Covering a 10.2-square-mile area which ...
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By Aly Van Dyke The Topeka Capital-Journal TOPEKA, Kan. — After more than a year of research, the Shawnee County Emergency Communications Management Board has a ...
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By Elisha Sauers The Capital ANNAPOLIS, Md. — During one of his first days on the job, Annapolis Fire Department Chief David Stokes noticed his secretary had left a ...
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By Stephen Williams The Daily Gazette ALBANY, N.Y. — The county must establish new policies as private, for-profit ambulance services start responding to 911 calls from ...
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On Feb 22, President Obama signed into law the payroll tax cut extension bill that included reallocating the 700 MHz D Block spectrum. The reallocation gives public safety agencies ...
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Wrong evacuation notices exacerbated confusion in dispatch center, which was overwhelmed with calls asking about notices and reporting fire ...
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By Jon Tunison MLive.com GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — In early 2008, when fire ravaged the 100-unit Indian Village Condominiums, Grand Rapids firefighters could have used a cohesive ...
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If you build it, they will come. During the past couple of years Raytheon built it, and came we did today to Downey (Calif.) for an event at which the company unveiled a brand-new, ...
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By Tim Hrenchir Topeka Capital-Journal SHAWNEE COUNTY, Neb. — Two companies — Motorola and Cassidian — will compete for the multimillion-dollar contract to ...
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By Sandra Bradley The Union Leader MERRIMACK, N.H. — Although the basics of firefighting have remained the same throughout the past century, emerging technological advances ...
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By Cortney Casey The Sterling Heights SentrySTERLING HEIGHTS, Mich. — Sterling Heights is celebrating two recent windfalls that will support initiatives within the Fire ...
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Observer Today CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, N.Y. — Chautauqua County has benefited from an advance in communications. A new program that has been used for the last year in the county ...
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SAN FRANCISCO — A life-saving mobile app is stretching its reach this week. The PulsePoint app — previously known as the FireDepartment app — is now available at ...
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By Tim Prudente The Evening Sun ADAMS COUNTY, Pa. — The radios just aren't working anymore. The system is more than 30-years-old, practically obsolete. Equipment is being ...
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It's been a good year for new products in the fire service. From rescue tools to speaker microphones, and LED lights to command boards, there's been a number of highlights in 2011. ...
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Reducing incident response time is a constant battle for fire departments across the globe. Improving the speed, efficiency and safety of teams, equipment and critical ...
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