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Communicating in a disaster: Homeland Security orders cities at highest risk to bolster systems for first responders by end of next year.
Publication: Newsday (Melville, NY) Publication Date: 29-NOV-06 |
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COPYRIGHT 2006 Newsday
Byline: Carol Eisenberg
Nov. 29--WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announced yesterday that the nation's 35 highest-risk cities must have systems enabling first responders to communicate in a disaster by the end of next year. Every state must have such a system by the end of 2008, he said. New York City has already achieved that goal, officials said, but will be expected to continue to improve communications with first responders in Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester. "The bottom line is we have to...
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