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2. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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   Code 1: A time critical event with response requiring lights and siren. This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the ...

3. Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act - Wikipedia

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   The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 is a United States federal law passed by the 99th United States Congress located at Title 42, Chapter 116 of the U.S. Code, concerned with emergency response preparedness.

4. Public health emergency (United States) - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, a public health emergency declaration releases resources meant to handle an actual or potential public health crisis. Recent examples include: Incidents of flooding; Severe weather [1] the 2009 swine flu pandemic, which Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano described as a "declaration of emergency preparedness." [2]

5. Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response

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   The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response (ASPR) is an operating agency of the U.S. Public Health Service within the Department of Health and Human Services that focuses on preventing, preparing for, and responding to the adverse health effects of public health emergencies and disasters. Its functions include preparedness ...

6. Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act - Wikipedia

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   On December 19, 2006, the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA), Public Law No. 109-417, was signed into law by President George W. Bush.First introduced in the House by Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) and Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA), PAHPA had broad implications for the United States Department of Health and Human Services's (HHS) preparedness and response activities.

7. Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Reauthorization Act of ...

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   Section 201 of the new law allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to authorize a state or tribe to temporarily reassign state and local public health department or agency personnel funded through Public Health Service Act programs to immediately address a public health emergency in the state or tribe. The Act, however, requires that ...