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Emergency responders use portable air samplers to determine airborne concentrations of radioactivity after incidents involving releases of radiation into the atmosphere. These devices can be placed into two general categories: high volume samplers that are deployed to fixed locations and personal samplers that are worn by individuals who are moving around a work site. A typical use for high volume samplers is measuring concentrations of airborne radioactivity downwind of an emission source, whil ...
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Occupant Protection Division and Office of Emergency Medical Services released best-practice recommendations to ensure that America’s children are safely transported in emergency ground ambulances.
The new guidelines provide national, state and local emergency medical services organizations with clear guidance on best practices for properly restraining children traveling by ambulance from the scene of a traffic crash or medical emergency to a hospital or medical facility. If widely adopted, the guidelines could serve as a tool for standardizing national child restraint protocols in ground ambulances across the United States.
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The National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) Firewise® Communities Program launched a new Firewise toolkit, available at no cost online. Firewise is a national program that emphasizes community involvement and provides important inform
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Nationwide, mistaken eyewitness identifications have played a role in 75 percent of convictions later overturned because of DNA evidence, and criminal justice practitioners and researchers have a pervasive interest in finding ways to improve the meth
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is testing a new technology dubbed the Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time (AVATAR) kiosk. Developed by researchers at the University of Arizona, the kiosk interviews travelers while sea
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The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has set aside $135 million in grant money to help municipalities get through the planning stages of the nationwide project. Born from the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Crea
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