At the San Antonio headquarters of top U.S. refiner Valero Energy, the emergency command center was alert on Saturday morning, with two dozen executives monitoring the landfall of Hurricane Rita on the Louisiana coast.
"It took me 40 minutes to walk four blocks from my house to the Emergency Operations Center, " he said.
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Mr. Murray did attend training exercises for a snowstorm and on disaster-preparedness functions and the emergency operations center, officials said.
In front of each computer in the Emergency Operations Center is a placard: Ethics, Immunization, Mental Health, Security, and dozens more.
In New York City, for example, when you dial 911, that call will go to the emergency service center in New York City.
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I'm going to travel down to Texas tomorrow to visit with the Emergency Operations Center in Austin, where coordination among federal, state, and local government officials is occurring.
This is the Emergency Operations Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has ramped up its resources to tackle swine flu, a new disease that experts say may evolve into a global pandemic.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Thursday morning and activated the State Emergency Operations Center.
Four people were killed, the National Emergency Operations Center in Jamaica said, and the storm downed trees and damaged houses.
Beyond deploying liaisons to the Arizona Emergency Operations Center to help provide support to the state, FEMA has approved both of the requested Fire Management Assistance Grants to help respond, and the U.S. Forest Service has deployed more than 2, 500 interagency firefighters to protect lives and property.
The organizations include the CERT Coordination Center, the Electricity Sector Information Sharing and Analysis Center, the European Cyber Crime Center, the Malaysia Computer Emergency Response Team, the Australian Federal Police and the Irish Reporting and Information Security Service.
At the state's request, a FEMA liaison officer was on site at the Florida state emergency operations center, according to the White House.
Hospitals, kindergartens and schools were among the buildings affected by the blast, said Vladimir Stepanov, of the National Center for Emergency Situations at the Russian Interior Ministry.
However, Oliva said the base's emergency center was standing down, as the storm's track seemed to put Parris Island out of harm's way.
The state Emergency Operations Center in Albany was activated at noon Friday to monitor storm response.
As I write this, I am still at the National Emergency Training Center in Maryland, which is enough to make me see disaster hiding around every corner.
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To give you some idea of how fast this occurred, the rivers and the flooding were so intense that the Vermont Emergency Operations Center, their state emergency operations center, had to evacuate last night and relocate.
The proposed agency would take over the Border Patrol from Justice, Customs from Treasury, the Coast Guard from Transportation, the FBI counterterrorism center and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), among others.
At the medical center, every entrance to the emergency room was blocked by security guards.
Xinhua, citing the Sichuan province emergency command center, said at least 180 people were killed and 11, 227 injured.
Vladimir Stepanov, of the National Center for Emergency Situations at the Russian Interior Ministry, earlier told state media that hospitals, kindergartens and schools were among those affected.
The following is a transcript of remarks made by President George W. Bush after a briefing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency Operations Center.
"The wave came onshore and washed out people's homes, " said Cinta Brown, an American Samoa homeland security official working at the island's emergency operations center.
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He also had a police scanner and told CBS the inspiration for Twitter came from listening to the short bursts of chatter from the city's emergency dispatch center.
The state's emergency operations center was calling in staff to monitor power outages and assist counties with roadways, said Dean Flener, a spokesman for the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
Should calamity strike, you can use the device to send a distress signal to the GEOS International Emergency Response Coordination Center, a search-and-rescue service that will coordinate with local authorities to send help your way.
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The NRC has stood up its Maryland-based headquarters Operations Center since the beginning of the emergency in Japan, and is operating on a 24-hour basis.
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Call the Center for Disease Control Emergency Response at (770) 488-7100 for answers to any questions.
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"As we transition from a large-scale emergency evacuation center into the recovery process, we have begun assisting all evacuees to find more suitable shelter and housing, " Sanders said.
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