Quick alert, evacuation may have saved lives
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Stinging from the painful lessons learned from wildfires that claimed 15 lives four years ago, authorities in San Diego County were quick to warn and evacuate residents this time.
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Â·  Chaos as rescue teams rush to save villagers Â·  More than sixty now dead despite mass evacuation
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Â· Arsonist may be among hundreds interviewedÂ· Experts say speed of blaze rules out accidental cause
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Life & style: Would you know what to do if your child was injured? A basic first-aid course could make all the difference, says Sheridan McCoid
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Text messages could soon be at the heart of a system to help people cope in the aftermath of disasters.
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INDIA&#39;s tangled bureaucracy bungled the first alerts of Sunday&#39;s tsunami, losing precious time in which lives could have been saved, newspapers reported today.
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When the squeal from an automated warning radio brought news a severe storm was approaching, school principal William Tomic acted quickly. He alerted teachers to bring children indoors and to a secure interior hallway for shelter.
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but it&#39;s something to which they need to begin paying attention before a catastrophe of terrible proportions occurs. You may remember
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Team Amber Alert National News ( Mt. St. Helens, WA)-- On Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004, Alert Level raised to 3:&quot;Potential Harm to Life and Property&quot;.
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CHICAGO - Lessons learned in a deadly 2003 Chicago high-rise fire may have saved lives this week when a fire broke out on the 29th floor of a downtown skyscraper, fire officials said Tuesday.
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The paramedics, dispatched by the county or city fire department, arrive in about seven minutes and assess your injuries. A helicopter is activated and the medics call a pre-assigned base hospital, who decides where you go.
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MADISON, Wis. - A fire alarm set off by smoke in the state Capitol caused an evacuation before firefighters located the source of the problem - a toaster and a singed muffin. "It was not too badly singed," said Justin Sargent, an aide to Sen.
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There&#39;s an amusing story moving over the Associated Press wire this morning about a Corvallis, Ore., man whose new TV set surprised everyone by emitting an international distress signal that was picked up by satellite, sending emergency responders rushing
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A rapidly moving, "zero-percent-contained" wildfire rampaging through the plush suburbs of Malibu could have meant disaster for Pepperdine University's data center, but CIO Timothy Chester credits a solid contingency plan (and a wall of firefighters) for averting catastrophe.
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While TV viewers and radio listeners have long suffered through ear-piercing emergency-alert tests, the system has had a spotty record in actual crises. That's why critics are leery of plans to expand the system to cell phones and PCs. By Randy Dotinga.
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Every day, emergency responders and law enforcement officers nationwide help non-English-speaking people whose lives might be in immediate danger. The job is particularly challenging for small agencies in the South, which has seen a recent influx of Hispanic residents.
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The warning system worked perfectly. From sensors far offshore, Japanese meteorologists detected a tsunami headed toward the southern island of Ishigaki in March 2002 and quickly warned residents of the possible danger.