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The Emergency Services Academy Wednesday started international course on disaster response, in collaboration with the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre. A four-day Community Action for Disaster Response (CADRE) course to enhance [...]

Police officers raced to the school. Some students trembled as they crouched in corners trying to hide. A few staff members began to pray. ''We really thought we were not [...]

NEW PORT RICHEY -- The Pasco County Sheriff's Office was conducting a death investigation on Friday evening at 4737 Belfast Drive. The home was roped off with crime scene tape. [...]

Every emergency requires volunteers to help out the less fortunate. And that includes people and pets. Hillsborough County Animal Services will conduct disaster training for volunteers to assist at pet-friendly [...]

NEW PALTZ, N.Y. -- Carlene Pinto watched from her middle-school classroom in Brooklyn as the plane pierced the second tower; then she trudged the three miles home as paperwork and [...]

MADURAI: The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel from Arakonam demonstrated the techniques on how to handle natural disasters and man-made disasters to over 100 National Cadet Corps students. Addressing [...]

Jun. 15--SEYMOUR -- Richard Kearns, director of security for Seymour schools, knows what it takes to prepare for natural disasters. On Monday, he was honored with a regional recognition award [...]

Summary: MANILA, 28 November 2012 (IRIN) - The Philippines is making headway in integrating disaster preparedness into primary and high school curricula, say officials. MANILA, 28 November 2012 (IRIN) - [...]

Nov 30, 2011 (M2 PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) in partnership with the Michigan State Police and Michigan Department of Education recently released the [...]

Oct. 10--If people learn by doing, filling a trailer with fake smoke and asking children to crawl to safety could save lives. That's the goal of the three fire companies [...]

Sep. 8--'Be prepared' is no longer a mantra reserved for the Boy Scouts. In light of 9/11 and recent natural disasters, Mesa police are hoping to spread a 'culture of [...]

The scientists and engineers on the UK committee for the IDNDR, the international decade for natural disaster reduction, are aiming to put 1,000 speakers in 1,000 schools on or around Oct. 13, 1999, the last 'world disaster day' of the decade. Committee member Professor Scott Steedman of Alexander Gibb and Partners praises the scheme run by the Institution of Civil Engineers to make children aware of the practical problems posed by natural disasters. The course, which Steedman chaired, encouraged 138 14-to-16-year-olds to think of engineering solutions to the problems.

The multi-disciplinary nature of the development studies degrees offered at 23 British universities makes the subject particularly attractive to students. Development studies degrees cross the boundaries between politics, economics, geography, anthropology, history and law and provide students who have travelled extensively in Third World countries with a theoretical basis for their experiences. Meanwhile students on a new disaster management degree course at Coventry University gain invaluable experience by spending a year abroad working for the World Health Organisation in countries such as Zimbabwe.