Aides to Gov. Andrew Cuomo defended their efforts, denying that there were communication problems and pointing to the quick recovery of the region's transit system and rapid distribution of emergency supplies to hard-hit areas.
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 way to improve care for this group, it's said, is to move to a system of fewer but much more specialist emergency departments.
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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As I've written before, this has the ability, on any given day, to provoke a drain of liquidity from the Greek banking system, forcing the Bank of Greece to ask for levels of Emergency Liquidity Assistance that the ECB just cannot countenance.
Given the current risks of disasters, the growing threat to water systems from climatic changes, and the high stakes of water-system failures, innovative emergency response plans should be aggressively pursued.
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However, they use the high cost parts of the system carefully: they have fewer emergency room visits and lower hospital admission rates, and they are more likely to question medical bills.
"The thing that people want to do is settle back in, so one of the first things they do is try to clean up, " says Dr. Joe Guarisco, systems chief of emergency services at Ochsner Health System, which operates in the New Orleans area.
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.
Three days after Musharraf suspended the constitution and declared a state of emergency, Pakistan's judicial system is in lockdown, with thousands of lawyers jailed and many judges detained in their homes.
Conservative peer Lord Fowler, a former social security secretary who introduced the fund in the 1980s, said a system was needed "for dealing with emergency payments of one kind or another".
Sri Lanka will keep its long-running state of emergency, and reforms to the voting system will make it harder for smaller parties.
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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.
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.
Dr Mike Clancy, president of the College of Emergency Medicine, said he agreed the "whole system" needed to work together.
And the question was whether I was going to have a big budget fight, at a time when I was still trying to figure out whether or not the financial system was melting down and we had to make a whole bunch of emergency decisions about the economy.
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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.
Serco said the memo followed the extra step of getting guidance which had been added to the system to stop non-emergency calls being directed to 999.
The problems this week involve one piece of the giant ongoing overhaul, the new dispatch computer system, rolled out Wednesday on the first hot day of the year, when emergency calls usually spike.
Maheshwari had to wait too long to get his toddler into a doctor and realized there was a big opportunity to correct a system in which medical attention often required the long wait and expense of a nearby emergency room.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has assured travelers that the system can handle last-minute and emergency requests.
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Micro-grids are an important solution: a combination of a generator and hardened distribution system can supply reliable and larger quantities of electricity to a small circuit of users including emergency services, shelters, gas stations and grocery stores.
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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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Carnival said the ship's emergency diesel generator failed, but the cruise line disputed notions of a widespread system failure.
One of his main roles will be to improve access for patients to the emergency care system across the country.
In an emergency move on April 25th, the Bank of Japan extended the interbank settlement system by an hour, for Mizuho's benefit.
Instead, they are all too likely to let the system drift closer to the point at which the money runs out, then enact a series of emergency proposals -- and trust to luck.
" Says Eric Sacks of Emergency Care Research Institute, a nonprofit that tracks recall data: "The system is overwhelmed.
Unfortunately, many of the same high calorie foods have been provided to hungry families by the emergency food system.
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