Tempe Fire Department personnel spend most of their time doing things other than fighting fires and the Arizona department is changing its name to reflect that. The department is now the Tempe Fire, Medical, Rescue Department. Officials say the change …
An Alabama fire department now has oxygen masks designed to revive pets after fires. Northport Fire Rescue will distribute the pet oxygen masks among fire stations in the town this week. WBRC-TV reports that the group “Invisible Fences” donated the …
The organization that oversees the private Vermont Disaster Relief Fund has a new chair. The Vermont Long Term Disaster Recovery Group says that Chris Graff has succeeded David Coates, who was named to lead the panel by Gov. Peter Shumlin …
A chemical spill that left 300,000 people in West Virginia unable to drink their water is reviving calls for more stringent regulation of thousands of chemical storage sites in the U.S., especially those near water supplies. The Freedom Industries Inc. …
A weather phenomenon known as an ice quake has left a Waupun, Wisc., family with a giant, 100-foot long crack in their rural driveway. Dennis Olsen heard an explosive sound last week and thought his garage might have blown up. …
U.S. juries awarded three verdicts of $1 billion or more for the third straight year in 2013, topped by a $1.2 billion award against Dow Chemical Co., the largest ever in a price-fixing case. Second was $1.1 billion awarded by …
The winter blast that brought snow and dangerous temperatures to much of Ohio will end up costing cities and businesses quite a bit of money. Many are just beginning to add up the price tag for cleaning up the snow …
Three Toronto-area rehabilitation clinics have been convicted of auto insurance offenses resulting from co-operative investigations involving the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO), the Insurance Bureau of Canada, multiple insurers and police. The prosecutions have resulted in maximum fines of …
Research at Rutgers’ School of Criminal Justice has resulted in commercial technology that public safety practitioners and researchers worldwide are using to fight crime. It is being offered free of charge to law enforcement agencies and was presented at the …
The parents of a Lexington, Ky., teen who was injured when she was hit by a softball while standing in a dugout are asking officials to improve safety. Jay and Traci Doleman told the Lexington Herald-Leader that they don’t want …