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Laredo considers $300M bond for public safety, infrastructure ahead of May ballot decision
Laredo City Council has yet to decide which items will appear on the May ballot as residents prepare to vote on a referendum bond aimed at addressing the city's most pressing needs. Nothing is set in ...
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Flawed emergency alert systems lagged when residents needed them most during Los Angeles wildfires
As the deadly LA wildfires and other major emergencies have shown, alerts rely on a complicated chain of communication ...
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Laredo city officials create and prepare contingency plans
at 5 p.m. as a warming center. They also confirmed that they will be accepting pets as they have climate-controlled kennels. The Laredo Fire Department states that if people will be using heaters ...
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‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ Opens L.A. Fire Resource Donation Center on Hollywood Backlot
The show has yet to return to air, but in the meantime its Hollywood backlot is being used as a donation center to collect essential resources for those impacted by the fires. “Fellow Angelenos ...
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75 Los Angeles fire trucks wait for repairs as wildfires rage — while city spends $1.3B on the homeless
The essential firefighting vehicles were still sitting in the Los Angeles Fire Department’s Bureau Of Supply and Maintenance lot in an industrial area Wednesday, waiting to be repaired.
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Metro fire departments undergo water, ice rescue training
Fire departments in at least two Kansas City metro cities, Independence, Missouri and Overland Park, Kansas, spent Wednesday training for emergency ice rescues. First responders are familiar with ...
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L.A. Fire Department brass face questions about slow response to Palisades Fire
Los Angeles — Questions are mounting regarding why hundreds of Los Angeles Fire Department personnel were initially held back from racing to the scene of the Palisades Fire when it first broke ...
Hindustan Times19d
Megyn Kelly ridicules three ‘obese’ female workers over LA Fire Department's response; Who is Kristine Larson?
Megyn Kelly blasted the three female workers of the Los Angeles Fire Department as the massive flames continue to ravage Southern California. Megyn Kelly blasted the three female workers of the ...
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NASA image shows how close ruinous fire came to major NASA center
And it veered close to a major NASA center. After erupting in wooded hills outside of Los Angeles' community of Altadena, the Eaton Fire — one of the damaging conflagrations impacting the region ...
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Laredo gets ready for freezing temps, seeks foster homes for pets
LAREDO, Tex. (KGNS) - The City of Laredo has set up its Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to get ready for the freezing temperatures expected to reach the city. Local agencies, including the ...
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Actor Denis Leary tells 'The View' LA fire department 'understaffed,' gets budget cut further every year
Actor Denis Leary told the co-hosts of "The View" on Wednesday that the Los Angeles Fire Department experiences budget cuts every year and said they've been understaffed for over a decade amid the ...
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Did city, LAFD prepare enough for Palisades Fire? Here's what we know
New questions are being raised about whether the City of Los Angeles and its fire department did enough ... The dialogue did occur with my command staff in regard to, what else do we need.