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Safeguards lacking for emergency equipment.(Home Front)
Police, firefighters, and emergency medical technicians are the nation's first line of defense against domestic terrorism. Congress has proposed spending more than $1 billion over the next few years to help state and local departments buy protective gear and other equipment for terrorist attacks like the one that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon in 2001. Four hundred fifty emergency responders died in the New York attack.
But much of the emergency equipment sold today is neither safety tested nor certified by the government or independent labs. "There's a lot of stuff out there that is junk," says Stephen Foley, senior fire-service ...
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