In the first in this series of articles on disaster recovery (DR) planning, we examined risk and business impact assessment as the initial building block, and then looked at development of the DR plan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SANGAMON COUNTY, Ill. (WCIA) — A $14 million Traffic Incident Management training facility that will give first responders and ...

History is an ambivalent teacher. On one hand, as Spanish essayist George Santayana opined, “Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it.” On the other hand, we have the scornful ...

The changing times in our society today has resulted in the alteration of the roles of the Nation's emergency responders. Today's rescuers can find themselves on the front lines at a Special ...

AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) — The Randall County Sheriff’s Office hosted a multi-agency incident training with local first responders and emergency agencies. Randall County Deputy and ALERT Adjunct ...

Today’s emergency responders find themselves reporting to a variety of incidents, with technical rescue incidents becoming a common response for the fire service. These types of incidents are ...

A nuclear training exercise has been somewhat quietly underway in the US this week. The ‘large-scale, multi-agency nuclear incident training exercise’ kicked off in Schenectady in upstate New York on ...

Incident command system training opportunities will be held this month, according to event host Guam Homeland Security and Office of Civil Defense, in coordination with the Port Authority of Guam. The ...

The Offices of Guam Homeland Security and Civil Defense, in coordination with the Port Authority of Guam, will host two Incident Command System training sessions at the Port Authority’s training room ...