These shelters and related equipment serve as mobile mortuaries for use by the military working in remote locations and battlefield environments as well as disaster response teams in situations like the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
This realignment will strengthen the regions, help partners to comprehensively build preparedness levels and priorities, and allow for even better service to customers and stakeholders.
"We are on course to implement and enforce the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which is an important step forward in securing the homeland," said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
"This is an important step toward achieving the U.S. and EU's shared objective of enhancing supply-chain security," said CBP Deputy Commissioner Jayson Ahern.
Manufacturer Z-Medica Corporation cites first responder John McCullough for his heroic use of QuikClot hemostatic agent to save the life of a motorcycle accident victim bleeding from a severed femoral artery.
With an eye-level height of up to 23 feet, the Vantage gives security and law-enforcement personnel the ability to monitor crowds, perimeters, and surrounding areas from a stationary point.
WebEOC is the first web-enabled collaborative crisis-information communications system, providing real-time information sharing to facilitate planning, training, emergency response, recovery, and continuity of government and business operations.
The agency will train and certify more than 400 explosives-detection canine teams, each composed of one dog and one handler; the TSA teams will be deployed to U.S. airports with the greatest volume of cargo on passenger-carrying aircraft.
The NRF is designed to be scalable, flexible, and adaptable, and always in effect; the system articulates clear roles and responsibilities among local, state, and federal officials.
The Controlled Impact Rescue Tool, or CIRT, uses shock waves to pulverize concrete, which enables rescue workers to remove the material more quickly than is possible by using existing techniques.
