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...Yeah, this is a personal opinion. We need to [consider] what the public perceives FEMA's role should have been and what statutorily FEMA's role is. Their protocol for a disaster is that locals go to the states, states go to the Federal government, and they bring resources in. When we hit that tipping point and the city flooded, it was not within FEMA's mission, capabilities or competency to go out and direct actual rescue operations. The Coast Guard came in and did it because we're trained to do that. And whatever issues there are with FEMA...
...this practical cohabitation brings about a catalog of ethical puzzles. What is the proper protocol in such circumstances? Do these pajama pants make me look fat? How much does a double-bolt lock cost...
...phones continue to ring, the staff—five to seven dispatchers depending on the time of day—echoes the response throughout the room. Dispatchers then call firefighters, police officers, and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) to the scene, following the hundreds of detailed pages of protocol they must memorize for each situation...
...records from being stolen," says Appenzeller. But, he says, "we make it much harder for them to access private information digitally." E-mail and data protection is just a start. With growing concern about identity theft, Voltage is developing new methods for securing instant messaging and voice-over-Internet-protocol telephone calls...
...sobering fact is that the procedure just doesn't work very well; in fact, almost 95% of cardiac-arrest victims die before they reach a medical center. In light of a stat like that one, the American Heart Association (AHA) has decided to change the commonly practiced CPR protocol and, it hopes, save a few more lives in the bargain...