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Predictive Analytics: Using Real-Time Data to Help Transform Public Safety

Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Smarter Cities, Fire Department, Ibm, Smarter Ideas, Crime, Police, Analytics, Emergency, Real-Time, Patrol, Public Safety, Video, Technology News

Through using predictive analytics, real-time insights transform public safety, and enables the police and fire departments to prevent crime and fight...

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This Emergency Needs a Response

Austin Beutner | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Fire Department, Emergency Response, LAFD Response Times, Los Angeles Fire Department, Lafd, Fire Fighters, Los Angeles News
Austin Beutner

How many more unfortunate tragedies like the March 2nd fire in South Los Angeles have to occur before something is done? Any way we look at it, it's taking far longer for our firefighters to respond to an emergency than it used to.

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Saki Knafo

The Fire Hazard At Occupy Wall Street: Was It Real Or Just A Pretext?

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Zuccotti Eviction, Zuccotti, Police, Occupy Wall St, Zuccotti Park, Occupy Wall Street Eviction, Bloomberg, Fire Hazard, Fire Department, Nypd, Zuccotti Raid, #Occupywallst, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Ows, Gideon Oliver, Justin Wedes, Fdny, #Occupywallstreet, Evan Wagner, New York News

In the wake of yesterday's evictions, hundreds of protestors stood outside Zuccotti Park waiting for word from the court on whether they would be allo...

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PHOTOS: It's Woodstock . . . Minus The Sex, Drugs And Rock 'n Roll

Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Westland, Muck, Fire Department, Hines Park-Nankin Mills Area, Dirty, Mud Party, Water, Muddy, Mud, Topsoil, Mud Day, Weird Michigan, Michigan, Wayne County, Weird News News

This festival certainly isn't good, clean fun. A mud festival in Westland, Mich., let kids play dirty on July 12. Children ages 12 and under had a ...

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Keeping it Public (If the Libraries Don't Sway You, the Blazing House Might)

Amy Traub | Posted 11.15.2011

Read More: Privatization, Fire Department, Frank Pezzanite, Library Systems & Services, Tony Judt, Public Services, Public Libraries, American Library Association, Libraries in Crisis, Politics News
Amy Traub

Last week, the New York Times reported on Library Systems & Services, a private, for-profit company that an increasing number of towns are contracting...

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Hazmat Crews Descend On IRS Building In Ogden, Utah: FBI Investigating

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Taxes, Fire Department, Hazardous Materials Crew, Irs, Internal Revenue Service, 1973 Roulon White Boulevard, Terrorism, Fbi, Ogden, Haz Mat, Utah, Farr West, White Powder, Home News

Hazmat crews have been called to an IRS building in Ogden, Utah, according to a report by The Standard-Examiner. The newspaper reports that the build...

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Village Voice: New FDNY Commissioner Bears Blame For Deutsche Bank Fire

Village Voice | Comments (9) by Wayne Barrett Tuesday, Feb 9 2010 | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bloomberg, Fdny Commissioner, Fire Department, Deutsche Bank Fire, Salvatore Cassano, Firefighters, Mayor Bloomberg, Fdny, Nicholas Scoppetta, Village Voice, New York News

The fact is that Cassano was more personally involved than Scoppetta in the negligence that cost the lives of Robert Beddia and Joseph Graffagnino and...

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Is the US Military a Socialist Institution?

Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Fire Department, United States Military, Socialism, United States Armed Forces, Politics News
Cenk Uygur

Does anyone disagree that the military is almost entirely government run? If you agree to that obvious fact, when you attack all government run programs, aren't you by definition attacking the US military?

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FDNY Disciplines 7 In Deadly Deutsche Bank Fire

CBS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deutsche Bank, Fire Department, Deutsche Bank Fire, Firefighters, New York Fire, Fire, Fdny, New York Fire Department, Deutsche Bank New York, New York City, New York, New York News

New York City's Fire Department has disciplined seven commanders over mistakes that led up to a deadly fire at a ground zero office tower in 2007. Th...

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