If the display of this newsletter is not suitable, please click HERE. Homeland RESPONSE.org E-News for April 25, 2006 Homeland RESPONSE is dedicated to providing emergency response and homeland security organizations with the news and information they need to carry out their duties. Each issue will offer reliable, up-to-date material prepared by a team of experts and professional journalists on emergency response and homeland security.
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2. Survey Reveals Challenges, Opportunities For Homeland Security
3. Study Examines Health Effects Among Survivors of World Trade Center Collapse
4. USFA Releases Confined Structure Fires Reports
5. Safety Stand Down for Fire Fighter Safety Scheduled for June 21
6. Senators Ask N.Y. Gov. Pataki to Give Full Benefits to Daughter of NYPD Officer
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1. Rand Study: Chemical Exposure 'Most Challenging' Risk for Emergency Responders in Building Collapses
A RAND Corp. report issued April 24 proposes guidelines to better protect emergency responders from the chemical, biological and physical hazards that exist following the collapse of large buildings, in an effort to reduce the extent of injuries like those suffered by responders at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
2. Survey Reveals Challenges, Opportunities For Homeland Security
A new issue brief from the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) examines the challenges facing state homeland security directors. The brief outlines the results of the second annual survey of 55 homeland security directors in the states, commonwealths and territories.
3. Study Examines Health Effects Among Survivors of World Trade Center Collapse
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks of the World Trade Center in New York City, survivors of collapsed or damage buildings have reported substantial physical and mental problems. To characterize these conditions, CDC established the World Trade Center Health Registry, which will monitor the status of survivors for 20 years. A report published April 7 presents the initial findings from the WTCHR, which detail a variety of health concerns from the more than 70,000 enrollees in the registry.
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Click HERE for more information. | | 4. USFA Releases Confined Structure Fires Reports
In 2002, there were approximately 52,000 confined structure fire incidents reported to the National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS), according to two new reports issued by the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Fire Administration (USFA).
5. Safety Stand Down for Fire Fighter Safety Scheduled for June 21
The International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC) and 20 other fire service organizations are calling for the nation's fire departments to observe a "stand down" for fire fighter safety beginning Wednesday, June 21, 2006, and continuing until all shifts have been completed.
6. Senators Ask N.Y. Gov. Pataki to Give Full Benefits to Daughter of NYPD Officer
U.S. Senators Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Frank R. Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) are calling on N.Y. Gov. George Pataki and other New York legislative leaders to pass legislation providing full death benefits to the orphan of an NYPD detective who died from an illness directly related to his work at Ground Zero following 9/11.
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