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World Trade Center monument at Zadroga Field, North Arlington, New Jersey. The James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 (H.R. 847; Pub. L. 111–347 (text)) is a U.S. law to provide health monitoring and aid to the first responders, volunteers, and survivors of the September 11 attacks.
Trauma in first responders refers to the psychological trauma experienced by first responders, such as police officers, firefighters, and paramedics, often as a result of events experienced in their line of work. The nature of a first responder's occupation continuously puts them in harm's way and regularly exposes them to traumatic situations ...
The system provides the survivors and the emergency personnel with information to locate and assist each other during a disaster. SERS allows to submit help requests to a MATLAB-based mission center connecting first responders, apps, search-and-rescue dogs, a 6-feet-tall humanoid, robots, drones, and autonomous aircraft and ground vehicles.
A new law going into effect on Jan. 1 requires people to move back 25 feet if first responders, including law enforcement, verbally warn them to, while the responder is performing a legal duty.
The Protecting Volunteer Firefighters and Emergency Responders Act (H.R. 33, Pub. L. 114–3 (text)) is a bill that amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude volunteer hours of volunteer firefighters and emergency medical personnel from counting towards the calculation of the number of a firm’s full-time employees for purposes of certain provisions of the Affordable Care Act. [1]
First responders in Eagle Pass, Texas, say they are overwhelmed and traumatized from discovering families dead or close-to-death from attempting to cross the Rio Grande.
Unit 6: CERT organization (1.5 hrs). Students are introduced to several concepts from the ICS, and local team organization and communication is explained. Hands-on skills include a table-top exercise focusing on incident command and control. Unit 7: Disaster psychology (1 hr). Responder well-being and dealing with victim trauma are the topics ...
[6] A stumbling block to settlements was the fact that many of the World Trade Center victims were highly compensated financial professionals. Families of these victims felt the compensation offers were too low, and, had a court considered their case on an individual basis, they would have been awarded much higher amounts.