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New data has revealed the top ten US states with the highest rate of 911 calls. Where do you think New York State ranks? The research conducted by experts at personal injury attorneys injuredinflorida.com analyzed the National 911 Program data on the amount of 911 calls in each state from 2019 to 2021 and calculated the average rate per 1,000 population annually...

Think that New York State is too far north to get a hurricane? Think again. What should you have stored incase NYS gets hit with a Hurricane?

You may have an emergency preparedness kit to use in case of severe weather, but do you have these 10 most forgotten items on the National Weather Service's list?

We run short on a lot of things in the Capital Region during the winter ... day time hours, sunlight, but blood should not be one of them. Here's how you can help.

There are moments in your life where you sit and say aloud to yourself, really? Who would actually do this? Well, apparently it happens.

The notorious ‘Son of Sam’ killer, David Berkowitz, who both murdered and taunted police from 1976-1977, is reportedly currently in Albany receiving treatment for a heart condition. As reported by the Times Union, he was transferred from Shawagunk Correctional Facility in Wallkill, Ulster County to a hospital for medical treatment and is awaiting emergency heart surgery...

This is a terrible development in an already tragic story for a family traveling on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Maryland and stopping to change a flat tire late Sunday night. The father, Rick Warren, was fatally struck by a passing car just as he was finishing up the tire swap. His fiancee was also hit, but survived, NBC 4 Washington reported. The teen-aged daughter frantically called 91

Most of these have been lifted or will expire by the end of the day Tuesday. We were lucky that Sandy wasn't as bad as it could have been!

Being a Ham Radio operator, one of the things we do is volunteer for helping in times of emergency with communications. We try and stay ready for those emergency situations and here's some of the tech we use and you can use to stay informed on what is going on. I posted a story about this kind of stuff before, and wanted to bring it up again for this situation.

In an incident that’s sure to rattle your faith in emergency services, a 911 dispatcher in Maryland nodded off and started snoring after taking a panicked call from a woman whose husband had stopped breathing. Yeesh. Not a great time to fall asleep on the job, guy.

In case you hadn't noticed, mother nature decided to remind us that it is in fact winter and we are still in the northeast.  Now there are several snow emergencies in effect.

After dealing with driving or even walking in all this snow, the last thing you want to have happen is to find that your car has been towed! Not all city/town/village governments have snow emergency policies but the ones that do are serious about them. Here’s the list –