Word: alerting
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...latest admonition, like the one issued October 11th, is shrouded in vague language and frustratingly oblique parameters. Law enforcement agencies and the public are both advised to be on "highest alert," which, as many police departments are finding, is not much different than where we've been for the past month...
...Officials are sympathetic to the exhaustion inherent in perpetual alert, but urge people not to fall asleep at the proverbial wheel. "We are dealing with an unknown; we are dealing without a lot of specific information," Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge told CNN Tuesday...
While most of the nation was nervously following news of the mounting anthrax cases last week, some law-enforcement officials were equally disturbed by a less publicized crime in New Jersey. Authorities issued a national alert Wednesday morning after they learned that a tractor-trailer carrying what they thought might be hazardous materials had been stolen from Rockland Corp., a distributor of fertilizer and pesticides. Officials were relieved Friday when they found the truck's trailer, which contained 5 tons of lawn fertilizer. Rockland disclosed that the fertilizer in the truck was not the kind rich in ammonium nitrate, which...
...system allows drivers and trucking officials to stay in touch. Qualcomm Inc. of San Diego offers truckers a panic button. When it's pushed, a ping sounds in the company's network management center, a NASA-style command base with 31 computer monitors. In an emergency, an operator can alert authorities to the location of the truck in distress...
...Federal Government warns that there's probably more to come. When the U.S. began bombing Afghanistan, the FBI, through its National Threat Warning System, contacted 27,000 corporate security managers and urged them to be on the highest state of alert for a possible second wave of attacks. For most security chiefs the question was, What new measures can we take to meet the new threat...