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Be on the lookout for new police tool, aka Twitter (AP)

Be on the lookout for new police tool, aka Twitter

Technology / Internet

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- When Milwaukee police wanted to get word of a murder out quickly, they did it in 113 characters on Twitter.





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Report reveals communication needs, recreation use during fires

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 10, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The effectiveness of the media to inform the public during evacuations and wildland fire effects on recreation are some topics addressed in a U.S. Forest Service report published this month that is a compilation of 17 studies ...


Jumping on the bandwagon

Jumping on the bandwagon: Introducing the next generation multi-band radio to emergency responders

Technology / Telecom

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tom Chirhart knows a lot about radios, but over the last year, he's gotten a real life lesson in supply and demand.


Scorched Earth millenium map shows 'fire scars'

Scorched Earth millenium map shows 'fire scars'

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 22, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (13) | comments 1

A geographer from the University of Leicester has produced for the first time a map of the scorched Earth for every year since the turn of the Millennium.


Rasberry crazy ant

Rapacious Rasberry ants march north

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 10

Poor Texas. First it was killer bees, then fire ants. Now, it's the Rasberry ants.


Why California should consider Australia's 'prepare, stay and defend' wildfire policy

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Even as debate rages over the safety of Australia's "Prepare, stay and defend, or leave early" policy of wildfire defense, fire researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and in Australia say that the strategy ...


Spacecraft Talk Continued During JPL Wildfire Threat

Spacecraft Talk Continued During JPL Wildfire Threat

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As the flames of the raging brush fire dubbed the Station Fire threatened the northern edge of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Saturday, Aug. 29, the managers of NASA's Deep Space Network prepared for ...


Less than 1 in 3 Toronto bystanders who witness a cardiac arrest try to help: Study

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital working in conjunction with EMS services, paramedics and fire services across Ontario found that a bystander who attempts cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can quadruple the survival ...


A silo fire doesn't have to ruin all stored silage

A silo fire doesn't have to ruin all stored silage

Other Sciences / Other

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes, when harvest conditions are less than ideal, silage with lower-than-optimum moisture levels is put into a silo, potentially leading to excessive heating and a spontaneous-combustion ...


GE to sell security unit to United Technologies

Technology / Business

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US conglomerate General Electric on Thursday announced it would sell its security unit to United Technologies Corp. for 1.82 billion dollars.


Santiago Canyon Fire

Fire mitigation work in western US misplaced, says new study

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 08, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Only 11 percent of wildfire mitigation efforts undertaken as a result of a long-term federal fuels-reduction program to cut down catastrophic wildfire risk to communities have been undertaken near people's ...



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