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It's the first-ever nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS), which hopes to provide key information immediately to all Americans in the event of a truly national emergency. This national system will look and sound much like the current (and local) emergency warnings often seen on TV or heard on radio, but the scope is larger and it can be put under the direct control of the President.

The governor of Michigan is trying to force through the legislature a bill that would establish emergency rule, LITERALLY. Gov. Snyder is seeking emergency powers that would enable him to 1) unilaterally declare a “financial emergency”, 2) disincorporate entire municipal governments, 3) dismiss elected officials with no replacement election to follow, 4) seize control of local civil services, 5) hand taxpayer money, services and POWERS to private, for-profit firms...

"[Curtis] Mitchell died in February 2010 while waiting 30 hours at his... home for an ambulance during a blizzard, but Chief U.S. District Judge Gary L. Lancaster dismissed his family's lawsuit against city and county emergency services."

The judge says that regardless of whether the facts are as alleged, it's irrelevant since the Emergency Services personnel are not constitutionally obligated to actually provide emergency services.

The family of a man who killed himself in the emergency ward of an Edmonton hospital doesn’t understand why their son, who told staff that he was suicidal, was left alone for so long.

Emergency dental London recommended beneficial root canal treatments and dental surgery by endodontists where emergency dental treatment in London makes available complete restoration of teeth and control of infection.

The Obama administration filed an emergency request Wednesday with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the military from allowing openly gay troops from serving.

Dr. Elena Bodnar won an Ignoble Award for the invention of the "Emergency Bra" last year, for scientific research that on the surface seems goofy but is often surprisingly practical. And now Bodnar has brought the eBra to the public.
Functioning as both a bra and a gas mask, simply unsnap the bright red bra, separate the cups, and slip it over your head -- one cup for you, and one for your friend.

Funds collected for 911 emergency services: a new survey by the Federal Communications Commission indicates that in 2009 over a dozen states did not or may not have spent these funds on 911 or "E911" services, which zone in on caller locations. Wow, who would have thought this is possible!

Emergency officials will soon be able to blast critical alerts to anyone with a cell phone in a certain section of the city.

If Times Square needs to be evacuated because of a bomb threat or if a hurricane is bearing down on Queens, warnings will be bounced from cell towers.