GE Security Canada Announces Availability of Standards Compliant IP-based Fire Alarm Monitoring Receiver/Transmitter (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

OWEN SOUND, Ontario----GE Security, Inc., a business of GE Enterprise Solutions , today announced the immediate availability of a ULC-listed, IP-based fire alarm receiver/transmitter to meet the new Canadian CAN/ULC-S559-04 fire alarm monitoring standard.

With fire at sea a deadly threat, Navy stays prepared (The Virginian-Pilot)

By Kathy Adams NORFOLK The fire alarm blared. andquot;All hands man your battle stations!andquot; shouted a voice over the intercom. Twenty-two sailors sprang into action, pulling on protective suits, oxygen tanks, gloves and helmets. The intercom voice instructed the sailors, a firefightin ...

Nigeria: Nema Raises Alarm Over Lake Nyos (AllAfrica.com)

A disaster alarm was raised at the weekend in Abuja by the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) which chastised the various state governments in the country for their non-challance to the agencies' timely advice and warning on how to prevent disaster in the country.

Police resources are diverted from other problems to prevent terrorism (International Herald Tribune)

The U.S. war on terror has evolved into a quiet police struggle against a phantom foe, bolstered by an influx of grants, while more identifiable crimes - like homicide and robbery - often go unpunished for lack of resources.

Galveston FD: Collapse claim was false alarm (Houston Chronicle)

After a brief scare this morning, Galveston police and firefighters concluded that a homeless man was mistaken when he thought a pile of broken concrete that's being used for construction on the beach had collapsed on his three friends.