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On Wednesday, the emergency response capabilities of Baxter County agencies will be put to the test. A full-scale training exercise simulating a terrorist attack at a local facility will be conducted at the Baxter County Fairgrounds.

People are in a desperate situation in terms of food. Above all, they have to be given emergency aid. We have to create jobs immediately to calm the situation.

Our hearts and prayers go out to all those who have been affected or have loved ones who were harmed by this terrible storm, ... We understand how important it is for displaced residents and emergency personnel to have access to telecommunications services.

Our initial direct cash contribution to the American Red Cross, The Salvation Army and other emergency management agencies was made to meet the immediate need of those affected communities. With Rebuilding Hope & Homes, we can channel the support of our large and loyal customer base to help fund the largest long-term rehabilitation and rebuilding project in our country's history.

Our immediate contribution of 3 million pounds will help deliver food to those most in need. But on its own, this emergency response will not help people to escape from poverty and hunger.

Our centers are almost like the emergency room. You're not expected to stay in the ER all your life. You go there, you try to get stable and then you move out to the community where you can live as normal as possible and as safe as possible.

Parents need to teach their child how to use it, you know you have four numbers, this is Mommy, this is Daddy, this is Grandma, this is Grandpa. If there's an emergency this is who you call.

Over the course of time, with real estate taxes that will come in, wage taxes, emergency services taxes and just the fact that people have better quality of life, it'll pay for itself tenfold,

Over the course of the evening, nine went to the hospital through the emergency room. One stayed overnight for observation.

Our programs generally have emergency response components to them.

Our staged emergency turned into a real life emergency.

Our goal is to give our Incident Command Team the same communications support capabilities at the scene of an emergency as they would have in the office.

Our first priority is to be able to respond effectively to the emergency situations as they arise,

Our understanding was that this was an emergency landing due to engine trouble.

Our workshop is the only venue of its kind in the state that provides an annual forum for face-to-face training and information sharing on a wide range of emergency management topics.

Our bench looked like an emergency room after a train wreck. We fought until the end but could not capitalize on any opportunities.

Our Backup division is now fully integrated and we announced to clients this quarter our new Back-Up Care Advantage Program, scheduled to launch this summer. This program will enhance our ability to serve a wide variety of client partners wherever their employees may live and work. Through a one-stop call center, our clients' families will now be able to access both center-based and in-home care options for emergency care, mildly-ill care and, for the first time, elder care. Working families struggle with the dual issues of raising children and providing care and support for aging parents, and this new program will bring much needed back-up services that will enable these families to better integrate the many challenges of work and life.

Our area's transportation and emergency health care systems are being pushed to the breaking point because of both the rapid growth we're experiencing and the severe burden of illegal immigration,

Our caretakers' regular hours are from 6am to 6pm. Calls during other times are emergency calls, and the clients will be charged double.

Rescue here is not guaranteed. Our motto has been: your emergency may not be our emergency.

Response to a large building collapse requires protection different than what emergency responders are typically provided. The hazards following the collapse of a large multi-story building are larger and more uncertain, and the duration of the response is much longer than usual.

Please, please don't go back until the local emergency managers tell you it's safe to go back.

Pierce Transit has been very proactive and very aggressive in their disaster planning. They work closely with our emergency management plan and public safety plan. When we request their help, there's never a question.

Reinforce the governor's emergency powers to set anything aside -- state and federal statute and regulation -- that stands in the way of quick recovery,

President Bush has handed out some of the country's most difficult and important jobs - leadership positions in public safety and emergency response - to politically well-connected individuals with no experience or qualifications, ... This common sense legislation will end this practice and ensure that public safety is back in the hands of those who are trained and experienced in protecting the public.

President Bush has committed a lot of federal reserves and manpower to the hurricane relief and the Forest Service is set up for emergency response. We have the expertise and availability to go to these kinds of disasters.

Patients still know that we have very good emergency rooms and very good physicians and nurses. This report card does not speak to the quality of care patients receive once they are in the ER. This speaks to all of the challenges that all of the emergency rooms in New Mexico have.

Our local governments are recovering, but many are on the verge of financial collapse. I'm asking the federal government to help pay the regular-time salaries of these essential public employees during this emergency period,

Successive seasons of drought in the worst-affected areas have now eroded many households' assets to the point of destitution. A range of appropriate emergency interventions need to be put in place as quickly as possible before the already alarming conditions become much worse.

Staff have been attacked by US marines, doctors have been shot, emergency medicines blocked. Children have been murdered in front of their families. Now imagine the same state of affairs imposed on the London hospitals that received the victims of the bombing.

My officers will be under strict orders to arrest any person who would seek to compromise public safety or who engages in acts of disorder aimed at affecting the response of the emergency services.

Marsha Ogle is working in a huge shelter in Lake Charles, La., doing mass care work - feeding, loading and cleaning. And Elisa Karleskint is in Gulfport, Miss., working out of an emergency relief vehicle delivering meals, water and cleaning supplies.

Literally anywhere from 75,000 to 90,000 of our people could be sent home on emergency leave without pay,

I think only Rip Van Winkle would be able to ignore the wake-up call that Hurricane Katrina offers with regard to emergency preparedness,

It doesn't mean the system is going to shut down, but in a lot of cases it means people are going to have to go to manual processes, which may slow, to some extent, emergency response.

It doesn't means all the roads are open to the public, but emergency units have more capacity to travel.

It has been a challenge from day one to respond to this emergency because of the high terrain, culture, security--all the challenges you can imagine.

It depends on how many nodes you're talking about. A minimal survivable radio network for emergency crews, the improvement of state emergency-management operation centers ? these kind of steps are feasible. But when people start talking about a nationwide survivable network, I tell them, 'Welcome to what's called the real world.' No one is going to pay for such a thing.

It is fair to say the overall response to this emergency could have and should have been better,

It is essential that older people are treated as a group with special and particular needs in these emergency situations as they usually get forgotten when disaster strikes.

It is essential that donors respond accordingly by maintaining an emergency culture in their decision-making and response.

I think this is a very special community and our foundation has never raised this much money in such a short period of time and I think it's a real community commitment and really a desire to have a much better emergency department, so it's a wonderful story.

Maybe something we should add to the list of items to pack for an emergency with the flashlight, water and food should be insect repellent,

Most search-and-rescue teams are never paid for what they do. They (the teams) are (made up of) all volunteers. Even the FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) teams don't get paid unless they are on an actual mission.

We'll actually wear the suits on the way up. Well make sure we're stabilized and the temperature of the capsule is OK. Then we'll take them off and save them for an emergency -- some sort of pressure leak -- and then we'll be wearing them on the way down.

The ability to locate emergency callers can save lives, and I urge the member states to lose no more time in making the necessary changes, so that these proceedings and all other pending cases can be closed.

The Achilles' heel of emergency management is lack of interoperability.

The ambulance missions are staged through the Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Office, ... The volunteers must wait for the assignments that will tell them where they're going and what they're going to be doing.

The actual idea took about five seconds. It took me maybe an hour to think it through and understand the impact, but the actual idea just popped in my head, ... I was reading an article in the Wall Street Journal about the Hurricane Katrina Emergency Tax Act of 2005 ... I was interested to see what the federal government was doing to help the victims of the hurricanes.

That would only hurt the country's image, and the army does not agree with the idea of emergency rule.

That's a very perverse case of emergency rule-making powers. The law gives the opportunity to know the rules may change, and for people to be heard at a reasonable time. The hope here is that government doesn't act in this fashion.

Most emergency nurses, I think, would agree that it was difficult because many times patients just didn't fit into one of the three categories. The five-level system is a refinement; it is more scientific.

We haven't seen Rep. Boyd's bill, but the governor does have concerns. As he expressed in his veto message last year, rape is a heinous crime and every victim deserves compassionate and comprehensive treatment. The use of emergency contraception is a deeply personal decision, and victims are entitled to receive detailed and balanced information for that decision.

Whether dealing with hurricanes, the recent spread of methamphetamine production, or the kidnapping and murder of innocent children, our first responders and law enforcement personnel are on the front lines and deserve the resources required to protect our citizens. By making public safety our first priority, we will make sure that we are prepared for any emergency and that justice is never denied.

We can't expect meaningful federal support to be on the ground providing provisions in an organized manner until probably the seventh day. Our emergency response system is geared toward everyday emergencies, not disasters. ... People need to be able to help themselves.

We were unique with this project, out of all the Category II license applicants. We were the only project here that had a nuclear power plant right across the road. It was also the largest project. So the traffic issue really had to be studied for many, many reasons. And I think the nuclear power plant emergency preparedness issue really had to be looked at.

We'll continue to provide access to family planning services, we'll continue to provide emergency contraception, and we'll continue to be open for safe and legal abortion care.

We'll be providing emergency needs for the first 72 hours,

We were not able to do the project as part of an emergency response because FEMA didn't approve it. FEMA considered it permanent repair, not emergency repairs.

We have to structure and fund our emergency services internationally, the same way we do domestically. We don't wait until a house catches fire, then raise money for the fire department.

We don't even know how our equipment is going to be moved around from the various departments to fires. It is vitally important to have an emergency plan in place.

Well, ... we know that if we have to put him over there that is an option. That is an emergency measure. Just like last year, we hope that we don't get to that.

We wanted to honor all the people who keep us out of harm's way every day. That's why we recognized our military, the Army and Navy, the Red Cross and emergency medical technicians. They're the ones who deserve the applause.

We've got so many issues down here. Since FEMA is paying the bill the company says we're emergency workers. We've got no seniority, and whenever it benefits them the company says we have to follow their policy. But when it benefits the operators against the company, then they say FEMA controls it and they hold up their hands like they can't do anything.

We have built an emergency bridge, opened public kitchens and medical services and coordinated other relief efforts.

Use the emergency call button, sit back and relax and wait for rescue. That's the advice. Don't try to get out of it.

We have had every type of emergency you can imagine,

We have an emergency plan. We are prepared to use pump and haul.

We can't handle an emergency if we don't have the equipment.

We had one lady ... we had an emergency run and she waited an hour to donate stuff.

We'll request immediate clarification. We have an emergency system in place if something happened.

We have the money, we have the housing and we have the emergency personnel. We stand by and are ready to assist.

We have the Department of Corrections, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of Transportation, our emergency management division (and) our Iowa National Guard working with local folks to try to put hundreds of thousands of sandbags in appropriate locations to try to reduce the damage and the impact. ... It's just a race against time.

Typically when we have a fire or flood and there's an announcement of emergency funds available, requests usually exceed the money available by five or 10 times.

To let them know in an emergency situation, I can definitely handle the job. That's pretty much the way I'm going at it. Something else to add to my resume.

Three people were taken at emergency traffic for internal injuries, and one was taken at normal traffic.

We never dreamed they would need our church for an emergency so far away, but we are glad we can help. If you look at the images on TV, I think everybody is moved to compassion.

While we have put forth the best estimates so far on emergency responder needs, the nation must urgently develop a better framework and procedures to generate guidelines on national preparedness,

While we have not yet reviewed this particular bill, it is important to note that the initial decision on Individual Assistance for South Florida was based on the findings of Preliminary Disaster Assistance (PDA) teams jointly comprised of local, state, and federal officials who assessed areas identified by local emergency managers.

We have authorized the release of funds from existing projects, and we are preparing emergency assistance for those countries that will require additional financing,

We haven't addressed how to deal with emergency situations like this yet. I think it's something we will probably cover and we will also be going over respect, honesty and reporting the truth, too.

We need things like a paved parking lot, additional bathrooms with handicap access, emergency lighting, surveys, new architectural plans and a whole lot more. Obviously, as renters with a lease expiring soon and a very tight budget, we are in no position to do this amount of work.

The premier did not announce a policy replacing emergency departments with paramedics.

The pressure on our emergency department - and further down the line - was enormous.

Those established communications networks they're trying to get back up -- the rush to get them operational again is primarily so that emergency services personnel such as fire and police can talk to each other, ... I don't believe that's going to be opened up for everyday normal communications (right away) like it was two weeks ago.

We are in the process of strategizing what our next move will be. Either we would have to resubmit another emergency rule for adoption, or it would lapse and we would have to go back to the original regulation.

We are in luck because we actually incorporate pets into our emergency planning.

You have no control over the market. You can't predict where it will go, and you can't bring it back from the depths. What you can do is save more. Make sure you have cash on hand - an emergency fund of at least six months of expenses.

We'll look at ways to help emergency services respond more quickly and get the road open more quickly, so we don't have secondary accidents.

Though the storm may have passed, it is still not safe for all of us to return to home. We must wait for the emergency operations to be completed and we must also allow time for experts to assess any potential public safety concerns. We may return home only once these situations are resolved and local leaders have determined it is safe for us to do so.

We don't have the resources to force people out of their homes. But we have made it very clear to them that when we have to take shelter, all emergency services will stop. If people are trapped or if there is a fire in the city, no help will be coming. The consequences of staying could be death.

Whether it's bomb squads, hostage negotiation teams, civil disturbance units, emergency medical service units, fire departments -- you name it and it's going to be on standby or staged for an event like this.

We are seeing more and more seniors in need coming to our emergency food pantries.

The pilot's skill made it possible to carry out an emergency landing and save lives.

We distributed samples of these cards to our member companies while the emergency regulations were in force in late 2005. We will distribute these again prior to the heat-season, and we are encouraging our member employers to obtain enough of these training cards to provide to all of their workers.

We did well in the emergency phase, ... But the reconstruction went slower than we had hoped.

We present the cities with emergency declarations and let them manage things their way.

want to discuss is significant, but it needs to be done in the regular order, not on top of this emergency bill.

The question becomes how do you keep some minimal level of emergency service open for the first responders, for the people that have to go out in the middle of the storm and maybe provide relief?

The only entity in the United States that has the personnel, the equipment, the training and the logistical capacity to lend support to the National Guard and other state entities in an emergency of this scale is the Department of Defense.