Fire Fighting

Officials are planning the first major rollout of California's earthquake early warning system next year, providing access to some schools, fire stations and more...

Lockheed Martin is among the participants at the upcoming Autonomous Unmanned Systems & Robotics Expo on November 25-26 2014 Lockheed Martin's open architecture command and control...

Haifa University will feature a new graduate program, Fire Sciences, in cooperation with the Israeli Fire and Rescue Authority. The Authority considered establishing its own...

The Australian Rural Fire Service (RFS) is carrying out trials this fire season with "spy in the sky" unmanned aircraft and drones to evaluate...

A group of 40 American fighters are enrolled in firefighting studies in Israel. They also joined a program of emergency volunteering in Israel. Some 40...

A team from Sweden was able to greatly improve the ability of operators to perform tasks with remotely piloted emergency robots by making the...

iHLS Israel Homeland Security In this weekly report (4 November 2014): The FBIs Next Gen system Airborne intelligence India's defense deal Gun violence in the US Bio-hazard protective gear

UVISION is among the presenters at the upcoming Autonomous Unmanned Systems & Robotics Expo on November 25-26 2014 It would seem that preventing almost...

Israel's Fire and Rescue Services will soon deploy a motorcycled search and rescue rapid response team which will operate in the center of Israel....

Israel’s Fire and Rescue Services are learning the lesson from last year’s major storm. Fire Commissioner Shahar Ayalon made a surprising revelation that the Israeli...

Hovermast is a new means for providing stabilized real-time aerial surveillance, to forces maneuvering along the battlefield. It is currently being tested and assessed...

Developed by Andover, Massachusetts-based Physical Sciences, the Instant Eye aerial drone is designed to improve situational awareness during disaster response efforts. The GPS-enabled Unmanned Aerial...

A traffic accident in some remote road in the middle of the night. Someone calls 911, at which point the call center asks 'what...

Responding to disasters around the world requires communicating in foreign languages, the US Army’s Science, Technology and Experimentation division has teamed up with government...

Elbit Systems recently completed a series of successful helicopter flight tests in Zurich, using the SkyVis Day/Night Head Mounted Display (HMD) onboard an AW-109SP...

US military taps advanced technology to save lives. The U.S. Southern Command’s Science, Technology and Experimentation division showed off GeoSHAPE. This tool would have been...

Big disasters almost always result in big power failures. Not only do they take down home appliances, they also wreak havoc with key infrastructure...

Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, first responders and emergency teams soon found out that they were ill-equipped to coordinate with one another. That realization...

In 2013 alone, The Weather Company delivered more 150,000 weather alerts to two-thirds of U.S. adults, and it now is targeting its reach to...

Announcements by the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) show progress at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. The First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet), an independent authority...

It is hardly a secret that when some people visit their family members or friends in prison, they have been to known to smuggle...

AT&T announced it was introducing a pilot system to its Customer Service Relations (CSR) for recording customers' calls as well as analyzing content and...