The city's emergency system works like this: Callers dial 911, and a New York Police Department operator answers.
We have been working on the Emergency Alert System, trying to move past just broadcast media.
Get a device (personal emergency response system) your parent can use to call for help if needed.
Unfortunately, many of the same high calorie foods have been provided to hungry families by the emergency food system.
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At 2pm Eastern Time tomorrow, the US Emergency Alert System will be tested nationally for the very first time.
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One of his main roles will be to improve access for patients to the emergency care system across the country.
The dread was amplified when the director of the city's emergency management system said two EMS personnel and possibly three firefighters were killed.
During the 787's development, Boeing repeatedly affirmed that it complied with the expanded safety standards for the batteries, which are part of the aircraft's emergency power system.
The mains water feeding the emergency sprinkler system was severed.
Mr. Catsimatidis has since repeated the idea, coupling it with a proposal to link the emergency response system to global-positioning-system trackers that police would carry to improve response times.
Consumers can still expect the test to look and sound very similar to the local tests of the Emergency Alert System that are already conducted frequently in local markets on TV and radio.
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The goal of this test is to help identify additional changes, on top of those improvements that we already know are needed, that should be made as we work to build a modern and fully accessible public emergency alert system.
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With the 2010 World Cup, the vuvuzela joins the ticking stopwatch on "60 Minutes" and the piercing signal of the Emergency Broadcast System in the pantheon of nonmusical sounds that instantly tell you what is on TV even before you've entered the room.
The government's Emergency Alert System has had just such a plan in the works for a while now, and Sprint Nextel is becoming the first national carrier to trial a system capable of sending targeted, location based alerts when bad stuff goes down.
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Detroit would pose a stiff test for Michigan's emergency-manager system, a controversial tool for municipal overhaul that hasn't had many successes yet.
On site, the workers in its number one reactor appear not to have been familiar with an emergency-cooling system called an isolation condenser, which they wrongly thought was still working after the tsunami.
It also suggested the government look at making the tariff system for emergency treatment more flexible.
Cirrus aircraft already come equipped with a full-airframe parachute that can be deployed in an emergency, and the system has been credited with saving dozens of lives.
With the Panasonic mobile HDVC system, emergency medical technicians can transmit essential visual patient data from a remote location to awaiting teams in the ER so those teams can prepare.
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The flight, perhaps climbing to around 5, 000 miles above the earth, is intended to test the capsule's emergency launch-abort system, as well other systems, and Orion's protection against damage from micro-meteorites.
"This has the potential to clog the system and emergency departments already facing serious crowding issues throughout the U.S., " said Briggs, a registered nurse at Tufts Medical Center, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Paul, Minnesota installed an early signal preemption system, it reduced emergency vehicle crashes by more than 50%, despite population-fueled congestion in the years following the system's installation.
Paul, Minn. installed an early signal preemption system, it reduced emergency vehicle crashes by more than 50%, despite population-fueled congestion in the years following the system's installation.
People with cell phones can actually use the phone and a new system to send emergency text messages just recently mandated by Congress.
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Everbridge also has a weather tracking system, and emergency managers can use that to send out automatic notifications as different weather events approach their areas.
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If it had universal coverage, the theory goes, uninsured folks would get care sooner--not wait till they have a medical emergency--saving the system a ton of money.
Mr Leigh praised staff for their dedication and noted the Foreign Office was trying to improve its emergency plans - its handling system was overwhelmed following the tsunami.
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If all goes well, it'll be operational in June of 2011, and it's just one aspect of the country's effort to consolidate all emergency alerts into one centralized system.
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The signal preemption idea was born in the early 1970s, when 3M devised a system that let emergency vehicles change traffic signals with pulses of strobe lights (later, infrared light) transmitted to receivers mounted over roadways.
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