Sentences with phrase «emergency officials»

Other passengers in the bus were wounded and were rushed to nearby hospitals by emergency officials.

If emergency officials recommend that you stay in your home, it's crucial that you keep your pets with you.

Although emergency officials were on high alert, many local residents were not.

In some cases emergency officials will not allow you to go back for your pets if the danger is too great.

Emergency officials said hundreds of residents, along with workers at a silica mine and the Lizard Island resort on the Great Barrier Reef had been evacuated.

FEMA Deputy Administrator Rich Serino is in New Jersey today, following meetings with emergency officials in Hartford, Conn..

Emergency officials in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas are bracing for the start of what's historically the most active time of year for tornadoes while also facing wildfire threats because of severe drought conditions.

As of Wednesday afternoon, state emergency officials estimated that one - third were still without power.

At the same time, Cuomo lightly criticized the federal response, saying he understood the federal emergency officials remain on the scene of multiple weather disasters across the country.

Several others have been injured while emergency officials evacuate the place on the London bridge.

«Everyone is working as hard as they can to get power restored throughout the county,» Cattaraugus County emergency officials posted on Facebook Friday morning at about 9:30 a.m. «We have requested additional power crews to assist our local crews.

Interfaced daily with public safety emergency officials from disparate agencies to resolve potential risk to 8 million military and civilian constituents

As of September 28, just over a week after Maria struck Puerto Rico, clean water, food, and fuel for generators were still hard to come by, most cell phone sites were out of service, and emergency officials struggled to distribute supplies throughout the island of 3.4 million people.

Smoke is so dense in some areas miles away from the fire that residents of Garnerville have been calling emergency officials, thinking they have a fire in their neighborhood.

Nearly three dozen cars of a freight train bound for Selkirk, NY and carrying hazardous materials careened off the tracks in a small Pennsylvania town, igniting fires in some rail cars and a garage and forcing emergency officials to evacuate the whole town.

Barker, N.Y. (WBEN)- Anxiety is rising with the water level along Lake Ontario as residents and emergency officials watch with concern unusually high water levels along the Lake Ontario shoreline.

Emergency officials clad in HAZMAT suits rushed a health care worker with «Ebola - like» symptoms to Bellevue Hospital in New York City, Thursday, the hospital announced.

On Monday afternoon emergency officials responded to a call about a possible overdose at his home.

A Los Angeles emergency official takes charge when earthquakes and erupting lava ravage the city.

Plan for immediate response and care — Anticipate first - hour priorities, assign roles and responsibilities, coordinate the plan with the school district and local emergency officials, and educate parents on the school response plan and their role in an emergency.

On Thursday, emergency officials reckoned with a storm that shut down schools for more than a million children, flooded roadways, filled homeless shelters and forced the cancellations of thousands of flights.

«State, local, and tribal emergency officials are almost always the first to respond to hazardous materials incidents,» said Drue Pearce, PHMSA's Acting Administrator.

A reminder that the Bali volcanologists at the Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (CVGHM), and emergency officials at Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB) should be the sole sources of information about Agung, as they have all the information and expertise.

A Chevron Corp pipeline exploded near a tiny Texas town south of Dallas on Thursday, shooting flames high in the air and prompting evacuations from nearby homes and a school district, but no injuries were reported, the company and emergency officials said The explosion south of Milford, Texas, was caused by a construction crew that accidentally drilled into a 10 - inch liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) line, Tom Hemrick, director of Hill County Emergency Management, told KTVT - TV in Dallas.

If you wait to be evacuated by emergency officials, you may be told to leave your pets behind.

At 6 p.m., local and state emergency officials and state National Guard troops lead a session of the governor's «Citizen Preparedness Training Program»; room 401, Julius and Armand Hammer Health Sciences Center, Columbia University Medical Center, 701 W. 168th St., Manhattan.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo criticized on Tuesday the response by federal emergency officials to the post-storm recovery in Puerto Rico, knocking the Federal Emergency Management Agency for failing to prepare for the hurricane before it hit the island.

The first hearing will bring in county emergency officials to detail protocol, policy, methods, and obstacles that are part of the emergency communications system.

In addition, leave early and don't wait for mandatory evacuation orders because if emergency officials have to evacuate you, you might be told to leave your pets behind.

AKC Pet Disaster Relief, a program dedicated to keeping pets and their owners safe during storms, fires and other natural or civil disasters, presented its first - ever trailer to emergency officials from North Carolina's Pamlico County.

After conferring with emergency officials, Picente made the declaration in order to preserve public safety and render all required and available assistance vital to the security, well - being and health... Read more

Emergency officials in Oklahoma, Texas and Kansas are bracing for the start of what's historically the most active time of year fo...

With Connecticut's deep ties to Puerto Rico, emergency officials and municipal leaders expect these new arrivals to initially stay with relatives.

After conferring with emergency officials, Picente made the declaration in order to preserve public safety and render all required and available assistance vital to the security, well - being and health of the citizens of Oneida County.

Also from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., local and state emergency officials and state National Guard troops lead a session of the governor's «Citizen Preparedness Training Program»; Manhattan Park Theater Club, unit 1B, 8 River Rd., Roosevelt Island.

The emergency officials, together with men of the Federal Road Safety Corps, Mowe unit and some policemen recovered four dead bodies from the bus, while 12 persons were rescued with burns.

Evacuate when told to do so by emergency officials, says Weather Channel meteorologist Stephanie Abrams.

A vehicle that ran a red light near Typhoon Lagoon struck a Walt Disney World bus today, but the crash resulted in no serious injuries, an emergency official said.

Donate If You Can Emergency officials say the best way to help at present is to donate to reputable organizations that will funnel the right aid to the people who need it.

People were rescued from rooftops of flooded homes desperately clinging to their pets, but Emergency Officials were not permitted to take the... Read more»

Some people who have waited to be evacuated by emergency officials have been told to leave their pets behind.

An emergency official says Oklahoma has reinforced tornado shelters in hundreds of schools across the state, but the two that were hit by this week's storms in suburban Oklahoma City did not have them.

According to emergency officials in Galveston and Brazoria counties, little can be done to offset the increasingly larger storm surges and reduce the likelihood of more destructive hurricanes.

Emergency officials were clearing one single - vehicle 18 - wheeler wreck on I - 95 near Savannah when they came upon a charter bus that crashed into a second 18 - wheeler.