Dennis and Ken Ortiz are in the business of disaster. The Ortiz brothers, both captains for the Los Angeles County Fire Department, run a small business that provides tools emergency crews can use to ...

METTAG tags are made of waterproof, fire-resistant, and chemical-resistant synthetic paper that won’t fail in extreme conditions. Fire departments, wildland teams, and emergency planners across the ...

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Forethought, the human-centered AI platform, today announced the launch of Triage Quickstart, an extension of Triage that allows customers to automate case tagging with ...

WASHINGTON – It was a busy day at National Airport on Saturday – a large-scale emergency response drill was taking place where first responders were dealing with a mock plane crash involving more than ...

In 2006, the Massachusetts Task Force 1 (MA-TF1) Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) team was assigned to conduct structural triage of a 2-mile-diameter residential area that had been damaged by a chemical ...

Imagine working in an environment where more than 50 languages are spoken. How would first responders communicate with the victims during an emergency? In February 2004, this was an issue for more ...

Nurse Michelle Carden checks over volunteer Nora Carey, 12, during a mock disaster scenario training event at the UI Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital in Iowa City on Friday. Carden checked ...

The decontamination shower door opens. A man in a beige hazmat suit and neon orange rubber boots steps out and motions for the emergency crew to bring forward the teenage patient on the gurney.