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The Calhoun County Citizen Corps Council is sponsoring Youth Preparedness Camp, to be held June 7-12, 2010 in Jackso...Read More... The Rainbow City Council on Wednesday approved new radios for the citys police and fire departments that will allow officers and firefighters to commu...Read More... Calhoun Countys Emergency Management Agency and 911 offices may soon merge to fill a vacancy left by the Chemical Stockpile Emergency Preparedness P...Read More... Mike Bryant says he has some big shoes to fill. Bryant on Tuesday was named director of the Gadsden-Etowah County Emergency Management Agency. He re...Read More... Though it was all hypothetical, Calhoun County was put through the wringer Wednesday. In the Pleasant Valley community, 10 children died after the ele...Read More... It was just a test. But emergency personnel prepared in case a tornado touched down in Calhoun County, and there was an explosion and fire at the Anni...Read More... The Talladega County Emergency Management Agency took part in an annual exercise Wednesday that prepares six counties for chemical accidents at the An...Read More... The man was screaming, frantically searching for his wife, when he ran inside the building. The man, at times, was belligerent with Southside Police C...Read More... Sirens will sound throughout Calhoun county Wednesday and emergency vehicles will roll out in force, but no one should panic. Those events will only b...Read More... The Chemical Stockpile Preparedness Program will be conducting an exercise from about 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday. This exercise is evaluated by the Fe...Read More... Ellen Tibbetts Vincents job is to educate people about some of lifes tougher times.
When she goes off to work as a senior human services coordinator...Read More... The Etowah County chapter of the American Red Cross begins its annual Heroes Campaign Wednesday with a fundraising goal of nearly four times the amoun...Read More... The Calhoun County Commission is moving forward with ways to maintain the areas emergency system once the federal funding disappears along with the re...Read More... Gadsden-Etowah County Emergency Management Agency Director Deborah Gaither has resigned to take the reins at the EMA office in the county where she gr...Read More... Some Anniston and area residents last week found packages on their doorsteps that may help save their lives down the road. Employees of Warning System...Read More... Calhoun County 911 dispatchers soon will share space with personnel at the county Emergency Management Agency facility in Jacksonville a move expecte...Read More... Citizens, schools, and businesses of Etowah County who returned their old Tone Alert Radios (TARs) have helped to raise $5480 for local volunteer fire...Read More... The Talladega County Commissioners met Wednesday and announced Talladega Emergency Management Agency grants manager Dana Uptain as the new interim EMA...Read More... With the winter season approaching, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) reminds individuals to be prepared for winter storms and extreme co...Read More... Chatmon Sturdivant was recognized Wednesday by the Gadsden-Etowah County Emergency Management Agency as the organization honored several businesses an...Read More... September has been proclaimed as National Preparedness Month and Gadsden Firefighter Appreciation Month in the city of Gadsden. Read More... If you are a person with special needs, registering with AEMA is just one step in your emergency preparedness plan. Knowing what to do before, during...Read More... The Army's $1 billion chemical weapons incinerator in Alabama started its final phase of work by taking apart dozens of old mortars filled with mustar...Read More... Health officials are urging Alabamians to take precautions during an earlier-than-usual heat wave that has brought record-setting temperatures to the...Read More... Cleburne County is getting a new building for its Emergency Management Agency and 911 services, and it will feature classrooms and house other county...Read More... A 10-person delegation from the state visited the chemical weapons incinerator at the Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility. It included contracto...Read More... A recycling program for the outdated tone-alert emergency radios began Monday. Any person or organization that has a tone-alert radio is asked to drop...Read More... Officials at the chemical weapons incinerator in Anniston are now a step closer to the beginning of the end, but they are still looking a little highe...Read More... Service for tone alert radios will be discontinued at midnight Thursday, according to a news release from the Gadsden-Etowah County Emergency Manageme...Read More... Its something everyone hopes is never needed. In a mass disaster, however, the Alabama Department of Public Health has 50-bed mobile medical units and...Read More... Every day, like well-oiled parts on a fine-tuned machine, 31 Talladega County residents travel to Anniston to help make their region a safer place to...Read More... Eight minutes. Thats how long it took for students, teachers and staff at Southside Elementary School to shelter in place after being alerted as part...Read More... Oh, it was awful (hypothetically). The jet fighter streaked across the early morning sky Wednesday like some supposed jet-fuel-filled harbinger of tra...Read More... Employees at the Anniston Army Depot and area emergency management officials plan this morning to practice their response to a chemical weapons accide...Read More... There are almost 9,000 steps left before the beginning of the end, said Tim Garrett to an auditorium full of community members Thursday. But the end i...Read More... A grant could help pay for six storm shelters in four locations if the Gadsden-Etowah County Emergency Management Agencys application is approved....Read More... Anniston Chemical Agent Disposal Facility officials said Thursday that the principal chemical agent risk at the incinerator could be gone by as early...Read More... Deborah Gaither, director of the Gadsden-Etowah County Emergency Management Agency, was sworn in as a newly elected 2009 officer at this years Alabama...Read More...
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