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Couple was lucky to be away when tree fell on their Bel Air home
Patrick and Helen Murray have lived at their home on 1212 St. Francis Drive in Bel Air's Marywood community for 38 years. When Superstorm Sandy hit the area Monday and Tuesday, the two were fortunate they were not home when winds picked up a large tree...
Tags: Hurricane Sandy (2012), Harford County, Home Improvement, Annapolis
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Maryland emergency crews on standby to head north
With Maryland largely spared from the worst of superstorm Sandy's wrath, some Baltimore-area emergency personnel — including a specially trained urban search and rescue team and multiple medical units — are gearing up to be dispatched to...Tags: New York City, Advanced Life Support, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Emergency Planning, Annapolis
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Maryland braces for Hurricane Sandy
As the eye of Hurricane Sandy loomed a few hundred miles to the southeast and the monster storm churned toward the Mid-Atlantic coast, Marylanders braced for the arrival of a weather system with the potential to be the most damaging to hit the United...
Tags: Baltimore County, Queen Anne's County, Fells Point, Government, Maryland Department of Transportation
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Helpful hints for the hurricane
Here are some tips to help you keep safe as the storm plows through the region over the next few days: •Dr. Rick Knabb, writing for the Weather Channel, suggests keeping at least three days' worth of water per person (a gallon each per day) on...Tags: The Weather Channel (tv network), Hurricanes, Prescription Drugs, First Aid, Drugs and Medicines
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Regional earthquake drill scheduled for Thursday
Most remember the rule "stop, drop and roll" when it comes to fires. Federal emergency management officials want to add "drop, cover and hold on" to our memory banks. Those are the instructions given during an earthquake, and people across five states,...
Tags: Washington Monument, Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Basilica of the Assumption, Natural Disasters
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Simulation of high-rise terrorist attack scheduled in Harbor East
A simulated terrorist attack in Harbor East will be conducted Saturday morning to train emergency responders from throughout the Baltimore region on response tactics in the event of large fires or mass casualties in a high-rise building, according to city...Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Terrorism, Harbor East, Annapolis
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Making child protection a higher priority
The earthquake struck without warning during children's naptime. Fortunately, Judy Tribby and her fellow staff members at the YMCA-Arc child care center in Bowie knew exactly what to do last August, when the ground started to shake. Within seconds, well...
Tags: Tropical Storms, Perry Hall High School, Natural Disasters, Maryland General Assembly, YMCA
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Earthquake recovery paid for through nonprofit agency
Our database design group is constantly bugging local governments for data sets to play with, even if we're not completely sure what we'll do with them. Not all of these thoughts pan out. One example: We recently got curious about how money was being...
Tags: Fells Point, Louisa County, Basilica of the Assumption, Natural Disasters
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Tags: Local Government, Barack Obama, Washington, DC
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Obama declares major disaster in Md. for derecho
President Barack Obama on Thursday declared a major disaster in Maryland following the storms and high winds of late June and early July, and ordered federal aid to supplement state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected. The deadly derecho...Tags: Local Government, Barack Obama, Government Aid
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Tornadoes, derecho meant a whirlwind start to job for MEMA director Mallette
One afternoon in early June, Ken Mallette was in Jacksonville driving from a funeral when he got a text message about severe storms striking Maryland. One of the storms' 11 tornadoes had just ravaged nearby Fallston.
In his second week as executive...Tags: FIFA World Cup, Government, FBI, Martin O'Malley, Bill Clinton
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