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Special police patrols across New York focusing are looking for drivers and passengers not wearing seat belts and not using child restraints. The effort is part of the Buckle Up New York -- Click it or Ticket enforcement campaign as a new restraint law takes effect Monday. The new law will require that children under 8 years old "be restrained in an appropriate child restraint system while riding in a motor vehicle," according to the state safety Web site.  

Bergen County Police and a Hackensack drug treatment center are among a growing number of agencies using a software program to identify dangerous intersections, spot teen driving trends and reduce accident fatalities. Plan4Safety, a crash analysis program developed at Rutgers University and funded by $650,000 in federal grants, gives public safety professionals access to more than 300,000 accident records from 2003 to 2008. The innovative program won an award this month from the Federal Highway Safety A  

A storage facility fire Thursday was in the Lubeck Volunteer Fire Department's jurisdiction but it is also just a few blocks away from the Parkersburg city line. Lubeck Volunteer Fire Chief Mark Stewart said seven volunteer fire departments responded because each one has its own specialty service. Automatically three volunteer fire departments are dispatched to respond to that area.  

Clinicians who responded to a call for volunteers to go to Samoa to help the tsunami response were honoured at a dinner attended by Pacific Island Affairs Minister Georgina te Heuheu in Auckland tonight. Mrs te Heuheu said when Health Minister Tony Ryall called for volunteers, 815 health professionals offered to go. At the peak of the emergency New Zealand had more than 50 health professionals providing wound care, infection control, surgery, trauma and grief counselling.  

Three dispatch centers handle emergencies in one shoreline town. While local leaders look for ways to consolidate them, one ambulance company is going outside the town to manage its emergency calls. In Stonington, there are six fire companies, three ambulance companies and one police department.  

In this article regarding the cost of firefighters responding to nonemergency calls, one of those calls dealt with a question about medication. As the regional poison control center serving Pinellas County, the Florida Poison Information Center-Tampa could have managed that call, at no direct cost to the caller or St. Petersburg Fire Rescue. As part of the Florida Poison Information Network, the center provides a 24-hour hot line for poison emergencies and questions the general public may have about med  

Stung by a recent series of deadly delays in response times to 911 calls, the NYPD and the FDNY announced a modification to the way it is implimenting its vaunted new 911 system to report fire emergencies. The new Unified Call Taking system, which began in May, was designed to allow callers reporting fire emergencies to speak only to NYPD 911 operators, thereby eliminating the need for the operator to transfer callers to a fire dispatcher. Under the new system, the 911 operator takes down the caller's  

Most firefighters that examine a copy of NFPA 1971, the standard that establishes the design, performance, and label requirements for firefighter protective clothing, are generally overwhelmed by the level of detail. The current edition (2007) spans 126 pages. While the standard contains separate sections on its scope, definitions, certification, label, design, performance, and testing, it is the section on testing methods that dominates this content.  

On a Sunday afternoon 14 months ago, winds from Hurricane Ike hammered Southern Indiana and police, firefighters and ambulance crews were overwhelmed with calls for emergency help. A lesson first responders took from the experience was that the community can play a bigger role in helping when disasters strike, Floyd County Sheriff Darrell Mills said. Hoping to forge a better partnership, the Floyd County Sheriff's department invited local residents, business owners as well as members of church and blo

I just think we need to better educate the citizens. They need to be a part of it   -Darrell Mills