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Arise Quotes
The multiple exercises proved invaluable is assessing the readiness of state emergency response plans generally and identifying specific challenges that might arise when responding to different types of emergencies. Putting a plan down on paper is really only the first step. Putting that plan through a test exercise really allows you to see what works well and what doesn't.
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Absence Quotes
A declaration of emergency is not authorized in the absence of conditions of extreme peril to the safety of persons or property beyond the means of local government to address, ... Despite the dangers which exist to those who seek to cross the border illegally ... the current situation in California doesn't rise to that level.
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Appear Quotes
A presidential declaration isn't likely because the storm was localized and damage to public facilities was minimal. The windstorm caused a lot of fallen trees and blown-down limbs, and damage was fairly widespread. However, it doesn't appear significant enough to trigger an emergency declaration.
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Candidates Quotes
As long as FEMA is under DHS, problems are likely to continue. I'm told that at least three state emergency officials have turned down the job of FEMA Director because it is under the Department of Homeland Security. Everyone says FEMA needs a top-quality director, but how do we get one when the top candidates won't take the job?
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Fast Quotes
This emergency rulemaking will require the use of proven technologies and techniques to help miners evacuate quickly and safely after a mine accident. We are using the emergency temporary standard to get help into the field as fast as possible. MSHA is moving forward on every front to better protect miners' safety and health.
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Approved Quotes
This funding will purchase emergency response vehicles, radio gear, warning sirens, improve public safety facilities and upgrade communications systems, ... While these requests were submitted and approved before hurricane Katrina struck, these funds will contribute to rebuilding efforts and to the long-term commitment of the Bush Administration to prepare our nation to respond to emergencies of any kind.
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Along Quotes
This event created a complete blackout of high-frequency communications on the day-lit side of Earth, which included the entire U.S. and basically anywhere the sun was shining at this time. Communications used by emergency services along the Gulf Coast may have experienced problems due to this flare. Low-frequency navigation systems may also have experienced a period of significant degradation.
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Affects Quotes
Although the U.S.-Mexico Border Counties Coalition was founded nearly a decade ago because of the high costs border counties bear to incarcerate criminal undocumented aliens and provide emergency medical care to undocumented immigrants, we want to take this opportunity to remind Congress, and the nation, that immigration is only one issue that affects the border.
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Attractive Quotes
A lot of people take emergency care for granted. At a time when emergency- department visits are going through the roof, the number of emergency departments has declined because hospitals have found it's more economically attractive to close the emergency department than to keep it open and lose money.
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Accept Quotes
Americans assume they will receive lifesaving emergency care when and where they need it, but increasingly this isn't the case. Our report found the nation's support for emergency medical care is mediocre or worse. Most Americans would not accept mediocre treatment or mediocre medicines; they also should not accept mediocre support of an emergency medical system that they expect to be of the highest quality when their lives hang in the balance. In a nation that has prided itself on providing the highest-quality medical care in the world, anything less than an A is unacceptable.
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Ability Quotes
They go to hospital emergency rooms, which are required by law to see them regardless of ability to pay, ... What happens, really, when someone doesn't have primary or preventive care, especially if they have a chronic disease like asthma, high blood pressure and diabetes, is they go untreated and wind up in the hospital, and those costs are passed on to those who have insurance, pricing a certain number of people out of the market. It's cyclical.
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Anybody Quotes
They do a good job of protecting the surgical area and making sure it's clean while they're operating on a patient, but they do very little out in the emergency room. They do very little for their public spaces, ... Anybody could unintentionally, or worse intentionally, walk in while infected, exposing a tremendous population of people who are already susceptible.
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Across Quotes
This is very good news for communities in Mississippi that are working hard to rebuild from the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. The substantial funding provided from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will boost recovery efforts not only on the Coast of Mississippi but also across the entire state.
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Favor Quotes
They really helped us out, ... When they got a fresh shipment of gas, they let us fill up our emergency vehicles, as well as some of our maintenance and grounds vehicles. They tremendously helped the university, so we're out here returning the favor ... trying to help with the congestion.
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Agreements Quotes
As you know, in the latter part of 2008 and early 2009, the Federal Reserve took extraordinary steps to provide liquidity and support credit market functioning, including the establishment of a number of emergency lending facilities and the creation or extension of currency swap agreements with 14 central banks around the world.
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Area Quotes
A call went out from the Department of Homeland Security to the state emergency operations center in Raleigh that a plane carrying patients from the Gulf region was coming to Raleigh. We sent one unit from the county and one from each of our three rescue squads to help with transport to area hospitals.