911 audio released of SF tiger attack
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One of the men mauled in a Christmas Day tiger attack at the San Francisco Zoo pleaded for help and asked why it was taking so long to get it, according to a 911 recording released Tuesday.
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SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5 -- Attendance was up at the San Francisco Zoo following a tiger attack that killed a young man on Christmas Day, a zoo spokesman said Saturday.
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US officials are calling the latest audio tape said to be from Osama bin Laden a &quot;message from terrorists&quot;. A State Department spokesman says the identity of the speaker on the tape has not yet to be confirmed.
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By John M.R. Bull, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Jun. 5--HAMPTON --   The countdown went over the airwaves -- "Four ... three ... two ... one ...""Fire in the hole!" a voice yelled -- followed immediately by a muffled boom.
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RED BANK Tenn. - Police are investigating after a man wrote about launching a &quot;feline jihad&quot; to rid his Chattanooga suburb of stray cats. Max Gerskin wrote a two-part series in the Chattanooga Pulse weekly publication, the first of which was published Aug.
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Police are investigating whether several items found in the enclosure of a tiger who fatally mauled a 17-year-old man show that the animal was attacked or taunted, San Francisco Zoo spokesman Sam Singer said Wednesday.
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Three men attacked by a tiger at a city zoo taunted the animal before it struck, killing one of the men, court documents reveal
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Nine days after a tiger mauled three visitors, the San Francisco Zoo reopened Thursday with safety improvements and more signs warning people not to pester animals such as the 350-pound Siberian tiger that killed a teenager.
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SAN FRANCISCO â One person was killed and two others were seriously injured Tuesday evening after a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its cage shortly after the facility closed.
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Officials preparing to reopen the San Francisco Zoo after a deadly tiger escape are worried visitors won't feel secure, though if past zoo attacks are any indication, curiosity might actually draw people in.
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(12/17/04)-- A newly released audio recording sounds like Osama bin Laden, and the intelligence community has &quot;high confidence&quot; that it is.
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The Pentagon on Thursday released an audio recording of a hearing for al Qaeda suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed at Guantanamo Bay but cut some remarks made by the self-declared mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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ELEANOR HALL: While this terrorism suspect hearing has been underway in Sydney, in Indonesia Australians are dealing with the latest warning from the Federal Government that it has specific information about an imminent terrorist attack from the Jemaah
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Several blasts were heard in Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, and two other towns nearby early Sunday, local TV reported. Metro TV reported residents heard the blasts around 7.30
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By Bruce Gerstman, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Sep.
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MADRID -- A ball of fire erupts from a train car, smothering commuters with smoke, and littering the platform with bodies and blood in a chilling security-camera videotape of the March 11 train bombings broadcast yesterday by a Spanish station.
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(InfoWorld) - After smoke was spotted billowing from a San Francisco subway tunnel on June 5, the city government swung into action, alerting citizens via SMS to not panic and to expect public transport delays. The alert was from AlertSF, the city government's text-based emergency notification system for e-mail accounts and mobile devices, including cell phones and pagers. Originally designed to deliver tsunami alerts and other post-disaster information, AlertSF subscribers can receive alerts about flooding, power outages, and traffic disruptions. San Francisco's biggest risk is from an earthquake, said Laura Adleman, a spokeswoman for the city's Department of Emergency Management. "People would want to know where they could go for assistance," she said, adding that AlertSF is "one tool" that helps the city provide that information. Alerting users about future earthquakes is not the system's intent, Adleman said. Predicting an earthquake is difficult, and the service's primary intent is to deliver post-disaster information. The service delivers U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)Â alerts of Northern California earthquakes measuring 5.0 or above. Launched in October last year, the free service now has 8,840 subscribers, Adleman said. Users can sign up for it on the AlertSF Web site. Registration took me less than two minutes; it offered the option to receive alerts in English or Spanish, via SMS (Short Message Service) or e-mail. Alerts are sent based on ZIP codes or areas selected, and depending on the importance, some alerts are sent to all areas. Users can opt in and out of nationwide Amber Alerts about missing or kidnapped children, California weather alerts issued by U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration and USGS earthquake alerts. Noemi Margaret, a San Francisco resident and community emergency volunteer, appreciates the alerts, even though none has affected her yet. "I'm happy in having the alerts come to my cell phone" as accessing e-mail takes time, Margaret said. AlertSF not only could save lives, it also serves as a security blanket, wrote Brent Schulkin, a San Francisco resident, in an e-mail interview. "Every month or two you get a little text reminder that someone is closely watching these potential threats to your community," he said. Technology-savvy residents of San Francisco are also witnessing the service's growing pains. Margaret receives about two alerts every month, which is not enough, she said. "More alerts would not be harmful. Information should not be shared among the elite few," she said, referring to first responders, "it should be shared with everybody." First responders are usually first on scene in emergencies. Recently a city subway line stopped operating and an alert about it was not sent, she said. An alert could have let people know to find an alternative route, she said. Also, providing just an SMS alert is not enough, Margaret said. It should be followed up with a detailed e-mail about how citizens can act in other emergencies they were alerted about, she said. E-mail alerts include a link to 72hours.org, a Web site set up by the city that provides information on what to do in emergencies, Adleman said. A size limit prevents inclusion of the link in cell-phone alerts. In some circumstances, instructions will be sent as part of an alert,Â such asÂ asking citizens to get to higher ground in case of a tsunami. Some users complained about not receiving alerts, though that's a minor issue, Adleman said. The government is still evaluating AlertSF, Adleman said. "There's going to be other ways we communicate with people, like the emergency alert system and press," Adleman said, though AlertSF will be an immediate messaging system when the city is in response mode. AlertSF uses Roam Secure's RSAN CWS (Citizen's Warning System) software to send text alerts. As San Francisco is one of the most densely populated cities in the United States, the city needed speed and reliability to transmit emergency information, said Bart Spencer, western regional manager at Roam Secure and an emergency service industry veteran. Text messaging is quicker and more reliable than voice as it transmits information in short bursts and uses less bandwidth. Users have found timely text alerts useful, especially regarding traffic disruptions, Adleman said. However, after a disaster, cell phone networks, electricity, and communication systems may not work. AlertSF is an Internet-based service, and San Francisco has a server outside the Bay Area to keep the alert operation running, Adleman said. When the cell phone network is operational, users will instantly receive the text alert and remain informed, Spencer said. "It's better to inform people than not to inform them," Spencer said. Informed people react better in emergencies, said Margaret, a self-professed emergency preparation geek. "It's important that people sign up" for the service, she said. However, the sign-up comes with a caveat, she said. "I wouldn't want people to depend on that [AlertSF] over common sense."