Chicago Police CDR Dies after Being Shot Multiple Times (See Video)

By Nicole Darrah, Fox News An off-duty officer with the Chicago Police Department has died after he was "senselessly murdered" in a downtown building Tuesday afternoon, police said. Commander Paul Bauer, of the...
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Detroit Standoff Ends: 3 Dead, 3 Officers Injured, Gunman Dead (Video)

By CBS Detroit Three women are dead, three officers injured and a lone gunman is dead after a tense standoff between police and the barricaded man. Since late Sunday night Detroit police have been...
U.S. Attorney General Sessions Speaks to the National Sheriffs’ Association (Image courtesy of the National Sheriffs’ Association)

AG Sessions Speaks to the National Sheriffs’ Association (Multi-Video)

Before I say anything else, I have to acknowledge, with great sadness, that we lost two police officers this weekend. Officers Anthony Morelli and Eric Joering of Westerville, Ohio were shot to...
A Georgia police officer was killed Friday and two sheriff’s deputies were injured while serving an arrest warrant, police said. The slain officer was Chase Maddox, 26, Locust Grove Mayor Robert Price

Georgia Officer Dies after Being Shot Serving Warrant (Learn More, Video)

By Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News A Georgia police officer was killed Friday and two sheriff’s deputies were injured while serving an arrest warrant, police said. The slain officer was Chase Maddox, 26, Locust...
Officers Eric Joering and Anthony Morelli were fatally shot answering a 911 hangup call in Ohio on Saturday (Image courtesy of the Westerville Police Department and YouTube)

Two Ohio Officers Killed Responding to 911 Hangup Call (Multi-Video)

By Jeffery C. Mays, The New York Times Two police officers in a city near Columbus, Ohio, were shot and killed Saturday while responding to a 911 hangup call involving potential domestic...
Richardson Police Officer David Sherrard, 34, was shot and killed on Wednesday, Feb. 7. (Image courtesy of the Richardson Police Department)

Texas Police Officer First to Die in Line of Duty in City’s History (Video)

By Prescotte Stokes III, The Star-Telegram The Richardson police officer shot and killed Wednesday night was identified Thursday as 37-year-old David Sherrard, a husband and father of two who is the city's...

LVMPD Warn of Potential Serial Killer Near Las Vegas, Seek Info (Video)

By Greg Norman, Fox News A mystery gunman who investigators say is on the track to becoming a serial killer is still on the prowl after killing two men and wounding two...

Facebook Changes Concern Local Police & Gov’t Agencies (Multi-Video)

Written by Hanna Kozlowska, the Quartz Immediately after a 15-year-old started shooting a handgun inside his western Kentucky high school last week, the state’s police turned to Facebook to warn and inform the greater community. The...
Deputy Micah Flick died in the line of duty on February 5, 2018

1 Deputy Killed, 4 Injured Responding to CO Motor Vehicle Theft (Video)

By Kathleen Foody and P. Soloman Banda, AP and TIME A Colorado sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed on Monday, the third officer to be gunned down in the line of duty...
According to the Fire Protection Research Foundation (NFPA section 1710) response time or, more specifically, turnout time (is the time from station-acknowledged notification of the emergency until the time the response apparatus leaves the station.) The NFPA standard calls for a turnout time of 60 seconds or less 90 percent of the time or better.

Firefighter Turnout Times: How Important is Time of Day?

Station design can play a very big role in turnout times, right? Well, maybe not quite as much as previously thought. While many research studies have emphasized that station design is a big...