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In an ever changing world, public safety officials continue to prioritize preparedness for a variety of dangerous scenarios ...

Officers, wearing protective suits, set up plastic cans to recover firearms and vests from the officers returning from a mock deployment in a HAZMAT situation outside of the old St. Clare's Hospital ...

Special Unit 2 carries support equipment for the Hazardous Materials Response Unit (Haz Mat 1). This unit carries decontamination equipment and a decon tent, supplied air respirators for confned space ...

Early one morning in October, word came to St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson and Bergen New Bridge Medical Center in Paramus that patients injured in an explosion and release of a ...

BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — Bronson Battle Creek Hospital will be conducting a full-scale emergency preparedness exercise Friday, Sept. 12. The exercise, happening 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., will simulate a ...

Public safety agencies, health care partners and local law enforcement will participate in a full-scale hazardous materials training exercise at West Georgia Technical College’s Carrollton Campus on ...

The training will take place at and around the Port of Albany, the USS Slater on Broadway, the Palace Theatre, and along the Hudson River. Albany Police will be joined alongside the New York National ...

CAPTION: Alan VanDusseldorp, EMS coordinator at Memorial Hospital of Burlington, stands outside the emergency preparedness unit. Hospital staff recently received training on how the unit works.