Logan Valley Mall Fire- Altoona, Pennsylvania (USFA Technical Report Series 085)

Engineering & Transportation

Department of Homeland Security

United States Fire Administration

National Fire Data Center

Engineering

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Live Oak/Milstar Complex and Carpet Service Center- LaGrange, Georgia (USFA Technical Report Service 086)

U.S. Fire Administration

This report includes California’s Fire and Rescue Mutual Aid System and its evolution, how mutual aid is used in major fire and non-fire incidents, and discusses some reasons for its success over the years. The purpose of the report is to share lessons learned to help other States advance their systems and give the fire service in general some useful ideas on providing mutual aid.

Special Report: Mutual Aid: Lessons Learned from the California System (USFA Technical Report Series 042)

This body of work provides detailed information regarding the Northern Illinois University shooting on February 14, 2008. This report will assist policymakers who must decide on allocations of resources between fire and other pressing problems, and within the fire service to improve codes and code enforcement, training, public fire education, building technology, and other related areas.

Northern Illinois University Shooting- DeKalb, Illinois (USFA Technical Report Series 167)

This body of work provides detailed information on the nature of the $15 Million Sight and Sound Theater Fire and Building Collapse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on January 28, 1997.  It will assist policymakers who must decide on allocations of resources between fire and other pressing problems, and within the fire service to improve codes and code enforcement, training, public fire education, building technology, and other related areas.

$15 Million Sight and Sound Theater Fire and Building Collapse Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (USFA Technical Report Series 097)

Special Report: Scrap and Shredded Tire Fires (USFA Technical Report Series 093)

Three Firefighters Die in Pittsburgh House Fire (USFA Technical Report Series 078)

The internet offers a world of opportunities to people of all ages, such as: posting video from mobile devices, building online profiles, creating alter egos in the form of online avatars, connecting with friends they don't see regularly, sending photos and broadcasting what they're doing to hundreds of people. Although, the way we use the internet can be very fulfilling, it also comes with certain risk to the uninformed and uneducated (the children of today's world). Some of these risks include inappropriate conduct, content and contact.Starting when your children are young they are observing your use of today's technology. And your children are very interested in just what is going on in that phone you're looking at or the computer that they are not allowed to touch.This book offers great advice for parents of children of all different ages. By the time you child is a young teen he or she will more than likely be adept at finding information online, but they still will still need your guidance to help them understand which sources are trustworthy. Even the most tech-savvy kids need to understand that not everything they see on the internet is true, that people on the internet may not be who they appear to be, and that information or images they share can be seen far and wide.Furthermore, this book touches bases on chat rooms, instant messaging, video calling and texting, and gives parents a brighter idea on how to communicate with their child about what they want to accomplish on the internet and why the child wants to explore the internet.

Net Cetera: Chatting with Kids About Being Online

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

On February 28, 2003, the President issued Homeland Security Presidential Directive 5 (HSPD-5), "Management of Domestic Incidents," which directed the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and administer a National Incident Management System (NIMS).

National Incident Management System: December 2008

Reference

The legacy Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) developed IDENT in 1994 as a law enforcement system for collecting and processing biometrics. In 2004, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) established the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) Program as the first large-scale biometric identification program to support immigration and border management. IDENT has evolved over the years into the central DHS-wide system for the storage and processing of biometric data. IDENT stores and processes biometric data-digital fingerprints, photographs, iris scans, and facial images-and links biometrics with biographic information to establish and verify identities. IDENT serves as a biographic and biometric repository for the Department. As a data steward, US-VISIT provides a service to its data providers and data users. US-VISIT identifies each collection by data provider and its authority to use, retain, and share it. IDENT enables sharing with authorized users after the data provider has approved the sharing.The process of retaining data provided to IDENT is referred to as enrollment. Each time an individual's biometrics are enrolled in IDENT, it is an encounter. Adding encounters to an already existing identity is referred to as an assignment. With each encounter, IDENT:Checks a person's biometrics against the IDENT watch list of known or suspected terrorists(KST), criminals, and immigration violators;Checks a person's biometrics against the entire database of fingerprints to help determine if a person is using an alias and/or attempting to use fraudulent identification; andChecks a person's biometrics against those associated with the identification document presented to help ensure that the document belongs to the person presenting it and not someone else.

Privacy Impact Assessment for the Automated Biometric Identification System

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

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