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92 smart phone apps for public safety and emergency responders

By   /  May 15, 2013  /  Emergency Management  /  No Comments

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The website for the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) International is http://www.apcointl.org/. A few weeks ago, they created a repository for public safety and emergency response smart phone applications. The site is called AppComm, and you can find it at http://appcomm.org/. Read more @ hlswatch.com

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Social Network for Emergencies to Launch in San Francisco

By   /  May 13, 2013  /  #smem  /  No Comments

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Disasters are scary — there’s no question about it. But as much as they cause fear, they also bring people together, connecting communities in ways that few other incidents can. Focusing on those connections, rather than the catastrophe, is the theory behind the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management’s (SFDEM) new projectSF72.org, created to enhance [...]

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Thirteen reasons why crisis and emergency communication plans fail

By   /  January 9, 2013  /  Emergency Management  /  No Comments

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By Gerald Baron @ the Crisis Comm Blog Companies, jurisdictions and agencies spend a tremendous amount of time and effort developing crisis communication plans. Some studies I’ve seen suggest that less than half actually have communication plans, but I’m not really talking to or about them.

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New surveillance technologies for improved emergency management

By   /  November 27, 2012  /  Emergency Management, Homeland Security  /  No Comments

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Researchers from the University of Melbourne and partners at the University of California, San Diego are working together to design and build resilient streaming sensor networks for emergency response such as bushfires. As part of Fire Action Week, an international seminar was held at theUniversity of Melbourne looking at how researchers are responding directly to the needs of [...]

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Do Alert Notifications Fail to Live up to Expectations?

By   /  October 4, 2012  /  Emergency Management, General News  /  No Comments

Wildfires that threatened lives and property of Colorado residents in El Paso and Teller counties this year were the most destructive wildfires in state history — 29 square miles around Colorado Springs burned, destroying more than 340 homes, and causing two deaths and personal property damage exceeding $352 million. To facilitate evacuations, authorities used a [...]

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