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Governor Pat Quinn signed an innovative new law that will crack down on individuals who use electronic communication or social media to organize a violent flash mob.
The legislation is designed to respond to a recent uptick in such crimes which have taken place in downtown Chicago. Today’s action is part of Governor Quinn’s [...]
The Alberta government has selected the winning submissions in this year’s Who Depends on You in 72? video contest.
Showing outstanding creativity and content, the videos encourage Albertan’s to make emergency preparedness a priority by taking steps to take care of themselves for 72 hours in case a disaster strikes.
“We asked for [...]
New figures released last week by the London Fire Brigade show that young professionals are having two fewer fires a week since the Brigade started using social media to share vital fire safety advice with the public.
The figures show that young professionals had 1,515 house fires last year. This is a [...]
Bay of Plenty Police will be joining law enforcement agencies from around the world this week to increase awareness of police work via social media.
The first Global Police Tweet-a-thon will see officers and staff from eight countries tweet about their experiences from the frontline giving a snapshot of the work that they do and [...]
It’s hard to know what to feel like and how to prepare health-wise at this time of year – winter feels like it’s leaving, but recent snow showers cast some doubt over that…
During this period which the ambulance service has dubbed ‘sprinter’ – ‘spring’ and ‘winter’ – we’re reminding people to ensure they [...]
Don your headsets, and answer that 999 call within 5 seconds, we’re inviting you to staff the North West Ambulance Service’s (NWAS) Urgent Care Desk (UCC), from the comfort of your own desk, sofa, bed; all you need do is log on to Twitter!
On Thursday 7 March, NWAS will be using the [...]
Are you “Flu Savvy?” Is your business prepared if employees call out sick due to the flu? These questions and many more can be answered by logging onto two interactive web applications that seek to inform and educate New Jersey residents on the flu.
“One of the best ways to prevent the spread of the [...]
As the City prepares for the impending blizzard, Mayor Thomas M. Menino today announced the launch of the City of Boston’s SnowOps Viewer, an online portal depicting real time location of all active city and contractor plows during snow events.
In addition to plow locations, visitors can also see where calls for service have [...]
More than 361,000 mobile and tablet devices now have the FireReady app installed after an explosion of app downloads during the first month of the year.
In January the app was accessed just under 40 million times and delivered 12,228,334 warning and incident notifications within subscribers 145,439 FireWatch Zones.
As fire danger increased across [...]
A week to raise awareness of the invaluable work of the ambulance service’s community first responders (CFRs) has been hailed a major success – more than doubling the number of applicants and significantly boosting social media interest.
The CFR take over week was launched on Monday to highlight the contribution these volunteer life-savers make to [...]
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