Walk into any emergency room in the U.S. and you'll hear a regular din of beeping alarms going off from machines connected to patients. But a new study found only a tiny fraction of the alarms signals ...

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Flashing visual alarms are a critical element of emergency notification systems in buildings, but their performance has long been defined in terms of its effective intensity, a measure defined more ...

Many people live happy, independent lives well into old age. But should elderly people ever experience a medical scare or another type of emergency, they may need urgent assistance from a loved one or ...

Dec. 16—The City of Cullman has adopted a new ordinance aimed at conserving municipal emergency response resources in the face of increasing 911 calls — calls that often bring police and fire ...

The group representing emergency physicians and other healthcare organizations say emergency department boarding has reached "a breaking point." The American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and ...

BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL As you can probably now tell, a missile did not hit Hawaii in January 2018. This message, which explicitly said ...

This Sunday, phones across the UK will blare out another alarm as the Government tests its emergency alert system for the second time. At 3pm on Sunday (September 7), the 'Armageddon alarm' will be ...