California Wildfires Could Overwhelm ‘Last Resort’ Insurance Plans
(TNS) — In the months before thousands of Los Angeles homes went up in flames, property insurance companies dropped coverage in many neighborhoods of the...
App Provides Essential Tool for Tracking California Wildfires
(TNS) — An app built on an off-the-grid ranch in rural Sonoma County, California, supported by solar panels, satellite internet service and a small nonprofit...
FEMA Opens Wildfire Relief Centers in Los Angeles Area
(TNS) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is opening two disaster recovery centers in Los Angeles on Tuesday, Jan. 14 following the Eaton and...
How a Michigan Fire from 1881 Holds Lessons for the Future
(TNS) — During a family trip to a fish festival in Bay Port years ago, Mike Snyder came across a historical marker planted alongside M-25,...
Rural California Got Millions in State Fire Prevention Funds
(TNS) — Since 2021, state authorities have repeatedly declined to fund wildfire prevention efforts in communities devastated by the Palisades fire, according to Cal Fire...
GIS Is the Data Backbone for Agencies Battling L.A. Fires
As unpredictable and tragically dangerous as fighting fires remains, geographic information tools offer the kinds of global incident views and intelligence that were unimaginable less...
Crisis Intervention Transforms Crawford County, Pa., Responders
(TNS) — Not too long ago, when Chief Robert Johnston of Linesville Police Department was first given the chance to take part in training with...
Kentwood, Mich., Patrol Cars Getting License Plate Readers
(TNS) — The city of Kentwood is installing automatic license plate readers on all of its police patrol vehicles as a new tool to help...
Georgia Declares State of Emergency Ahead of Winter Storm
(TNS) — Gov. Brian Kemp has issued a state of emergency ahead of the severe winter weather expected to start in metro Atlanta in the...
Watch Duty Wildfire Tracking App Adds 600,000 Users Overnight
(TNS) — As L.A. County fires continue to wreak havoc, a fire-tracking app run by a Bay Area nonprofit is gaining popularity.Watch Duty, launched in...