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'PAN PAN PAN' vs 'Mayday': What IndiGo's mid-air emergency call really signaled
An IndiGo flight from Delhi to Goa made an emergency landing in Mumbai on Wednesday night after the pilot declared a “PAN PAN PAN” call ...
Texas Flood Victims Couldn’t Call FEMA After ICE Barbie’s Cuts
Records obtained by The New York Times show that FEMA laid off contractors the night of July 5, when flood waters were ...
FEMA Didn’t Answer Thousands of Calls From Flood Survivors, Documents Show
Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that ...
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911 services restored in Pa.; investigation into cause of intermittent issues underway
In a tweet posted just before midnight, the agency said an investigation into what caused intermittent outages will continue.
911 outage reported in Pennsylvania caused by IT issue, governor says
The 911 outage reported across the entire state has now been restored, according to the PA Emergency Management Agency.
Former FEMA Head: Cuts to Federal Response Programs Guarantee Future Disasters | Opinion
FEMA was ready to respond to this week's floods in Texas—but was delayed by administrative hurdles and approval processes ...
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Utah Uses AI to Handle Non-Emergency Calls to 911 Centers
The state’s 911 tech management authority is deploying a new tool from Motorola Solutions that could ease burdens for call ...
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Big budget cuts leave federal disaster aid uncertain for states
President Donald Trump has imposed severe cuts on the Federal Emergency Management Agency and denied some states’ requests ...