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Climate Change Doubled the Size of Forest Fires In Western US, Says Study

Edit Slashdot 11 Oct 2016
rising from 2.9 million in 1985 to 10.1 million in 2015, according to National Interagency Fire Center data ... of the National Academy of Sciences, has found that a significant portion of the increase in land burned by forest fires can be attributed to man-made climate change....

TWA 800 mystery

Edit Arkansas Online 11 Oct 2016
Among our nation's most persistent and controversial mysteries is how and why TWA Flight 800, a Boeing 747 bound for Rome with 230 souls aboard, fell from the sky in flaming pieces over New York's East Moriches Inlet on July 17, 1996, about 8.30 p.m ... Yet plenty of skeptics believe the truth has yet to emerge from the fog of bureaucracy and interagency politics ... It happened toward the center of the compartment....

Travellers need ‘ring-fenced funding for third-level’

Edit The Irish Times 11 Oct 2016
Hilary Harmon, education advocacy co-ordinator with Pavee Point, told the Participation in Higher Education by Irish Travellers national seminar in Cork that only 13 per cent of Travellers completed second-level education, compared with 92 per cent of the population at large ... Traveller fire deaths ... fire safety risks found in 80% of Traveller sites....

Is that a fire in the Great Swamp? It's probably a controlled burn

Edit NJ dot com 11 Oct 2016
The burns will take place from October 2016 to April 2017 Great Swamp National Wildlife RefugeEd Murray ... HARDING -- A series of controlled burns will be taking place at the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge starting this month to help maintain and restore the wetlands, federal wildlife officials said ... Existing refuge roads and mowed fire lines around the burn units will be used to contain the fire within the burn units....

Las Cruces Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Cocaine Trafficking Charge (FBI - Federal Bureau of Investigation)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
This case was investigated by the Las Cruces office of Homeland Security Investigations and the HIDTA Regional Interagency Drug Task Force/Metro Narcotics Task Force ... The HIDTA Regional Interagency Drug Task Force/Metro Narcotics Task Force is comprised of officers from the Las Cruces Police Department, the Doña Ana County Sheriff's Office, the FBI, HSI and the New Mexico State Police....

Las Cruces Man Pleads Guilty to Federal Cocaine Trafficking Charge (Federal Bureau of Investigation - Albuquerque Field Office)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
This case was investigated by the Las Cruces office of Homeland Security Investigations and the HIDTA Regional Interagency Drug Task Force/Metro Narcotics Task Force ... The HIDTA Regional Interagency Drug Task Force/Metro Narcotics Task Force is comprised of officers from the Las Cruces Police Department, the Doña Ana County Sheriff's Office, the FBI, HSI and the New Mexico State Police....

Don’t wait, check smoke alarm date (DLA - Defense Logistics Agency)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
Defense Supply Center Richmond, Virginia, employees are encouraged to join Defense Logistics Agency Installation Support at Richmond Fire and Emergency Services personnel Oct. 9-15 as they observe National Fire Prevention Week ... The week is internationally sponsored by the National Fire Protection Association ... The Fire Prevention staff will be visiting ......

NYS OCFS Releases New Documents Guiding Child-Serving Professionals and Communities in Responding to Human Trafficing (New York State Office of Children and Family Services)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
The National Human Trafficking Resource Center has ranked New York State among the top four states where human trafficking occurs ... Cuomo established a state Interagency Task Force to help New Yorkers ... If you suspect an individual is being victimized, report it to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center at 888-373-7888 or by texting 233733....

NYS OCFS Releases New Documents Guiding Child-Serving Professionals and Communities in Responding to Human Trafficing (New York State Office of Children & Family Services)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
The National Human Trafficking Resource Center has ranked New York State among the top four states where human trafficking occurs ... Cuomo established a state Interagency Task Force to help New Yorkers ... If you suspect an individual is being victimized, report it to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center at 888-373-7888 or by texting 233733....

Fires Overtake Landscape in the Mississippi Valley (Goddard Space Flight Center)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
Goddard Space Flight Center) ... The Soberanes Fire near Monterey is burning in the Ventana Wilderness of the Los Padres National Forest, Garrapata State Park, areas south of the Carmel Valley and areas surrounding Big Sur ... The fire began on July 22, 2016 from an illegal campfire that burned out of control ... The Sequoia National Forest issued a closure order effective Saturday, August 20, for lands, roads, and trails near the fire....

Cost to add dispatch center at proposed new Beachwood fire station $230,000

Edit Cleveland 11 Oct 2016
BEACHWOOD, Ohio -- Architects' drawings and estimates show that the cost to include a dispatch center at the proposed new Fire Station No ... Beachwood Fire Department Chief Patrick Kearns told City Council' s Safety and Public Health Committee Monday that making a dispatch center out of what had been planned as space for Beachwood police to use in an unspecified way, would cost about $230,000....

DoD Assistance Team Arrives in Haiti for Post-Hurricane Support (DLA - Defense Logistics Agency)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
(Source. DLA - Defense Logistics Agency) WASHINGTON --. U.S. military assistance is on the ground in Haiti to assist and support the tiny island nation with the impact felt from Hurricane Matthew this week, Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook told reporters today ... military assistance with interagency partners and the Haitian government, he added. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is getting regular updates, Cook said ... 'U.S ... Editor's note ... (noodl....

NMA: EPA's Rushed Financial Assurance Rule Moves to OMB Despite Substantive Cncerns from Industry, States, Congress and Others (NMA - National Mining Association)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
NMA - National Mining Association). WASHINGTON, D.C.-The National Mining Association (NMA) today raised serious concerns about proposed regulations that impose a new layer of financial assurance requirements on the hardrock mining industry ... House National Resources Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee chairmen letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy....
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