Most states are ill-prepared for the casualties of terrorism, expert says By Eric Rosenberg The Houston Chronicle Copyright 2007 The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company All Rights ...
By Kevin Freking The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The federal response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita showed that medical personnel deployed to emergencies need more hands-on ...
By BEVERLEY LUMPKIN The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Bush issued orders Wednesday for how federal medical personnel should respond to a nuclear, radiological, biological ...
By Michele McPhee The Boston Herald Copyright 2007 Boston Herald Inc. A 37-year-old man who was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident in Dorchester waited 31 minutes for an ...
Journal Record (Oklahoma City, OK) Copyright 2007 Gale Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved An Oklahoma State University researcher is leading a national study on emergency responses ...
WASHINGTON — Five years after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, the country still isn't fully prepared to respond to a major public health emergency such as bioterrorism or ...
By Michael Doyle Bee Fresno Bee (California) Copyright 2006 McClatchy Newspapers, Inc. All Rights Reserved WASHINGTON — California remains more vulnerable than most states to ...
By Ron Martz The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Copyright 2006 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Atlanta's emergency medical care system is stretched so thin that any major terrorist ...
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Senators have agreed on a compromise to restructure and expand the Federal Emergency Management Agency, restoring some of its responsibilities. ...
Readiness needs to be improved, experts believe Bangor Daily News (Maine) Copyright 2006 Bangor Daily News Five years after the terror of Sept. 11, Maine and the nation are better ...
Training, not technology, seen as key to 9/11 By Mark Hachman Copyright 2006 Ziff Davis Media Inc. All Rights Reserved Five years after 9/11, government officials have still barely ...
Congress delayed giving a portion of the radio spectrum to first responders By Carol Eisenberg Newsday (New York) Copyright 2006 Newsday, Inc. WASHINGTON — On a day when the ...
By Robert S. Boyd Charleston Gazette (West Virginia) Copyright 2006 Charleston Newspapers WASHINGTON — Like the four horsemen of the apocalypse, war, terrorism, crime and disaster ...
Newsday (New York) Copyright 2006 Newsday, Inc. Calls were transcribed by staff writers Hana Alberts, T.W. Farnam, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Alejandro Lazo, Luis Perez and Bryan ...
Newsday (New York) Copyright 2006 Newsday, Inc. Calls were transcribed by staff writers Hana Alberts, T.W. Farnam, Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Alejandro Lazo, Luis Perez and Bryan ...
By Luis Perez and Hana Alberts Newsday (New York) Copyright 2006 Newsday, Inc. There is the voice of the fire chief, now deceased, demanding where the men and radios are, and ...
By Jennifer Sinco Kelleher Newsday (New York) Copyright 2006 Newsday, Inc. When the second round of 9/11 recordings were released in March, fire Battalion Chief Dennis Devlin's ...
By Amy Westfeldt and Larry McShane The Associated Press NEW YORK CITY — Trapped and running out of air on the smoky 83rd floor of the World Trade Center, Melissa Doi begged ...
By Ellen Barry Los Angeles Times Copyright 2006 Los Angeles Times All Rights Reserved NEW YORK CITY — In what has become a ritual, New Yorkers got fresh and horrific glimpses ...
By Hana Alberts and William Murphy Newsday (New York) Copyright 2006 Newsday, Inc. New York City plans to release 1,613 phone call recordings today containing the voices of ...
