Source: FEMA Sends Officials to Help With Flint Drinking Water Crisis (TNS) – The federal government’s disaster relief agency has sent three officials to assist Michigan with the Flint drinking water crisis at the state’s request, but Gov. Rick Snyder has not yet requested federal financial aid in connection with the ongoing public health emergency, […]
Source: Michigan State Police to Deliver Water Door-to-Door in Flint (TNS) – Michigan State Police troopers and other state officials will start a door-to-door sweep of Flint on Tuesday to hand out bottled water and water filters, and the White House says it is monitoring the situation “very closely.” The move, announced by the state […]
(TNS) – Comparing the devastation of homelessness to flood and fire, local leaders Monday declared states of emergency in Seattle and King County, hoping to secure additional money and potentially loosen regulations to combat the problem. States of emergency usually are proclaimed after natural disasters, such as earthquakes and hurricanes, or during instances of civil […]
(TNS) – Around 6 a.m. Tuesday, 911 systems in six southwestern Pennsylvania counties failed because of what one emergency official called a software glitch that affected part of the interconnected network overseen by CenturyLink, a Louisiana-based global communications company. Calls to 911 weren’t going through. Some computer screens at emergency operations centers went blank. Backup […]
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