A new phone app will allow students in Oklahoma to alert first-responders and school officials at the same time during emergencies. State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister announced the arrival of the Rave Panic App in Oklahoma during a news conference at Norman North High School on Wednesday. When activated, the app sends critical data such as students’ locations and school floor plans to 911 and first-responders, allowing them to respond more quickly and more effectively to emergencies.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Tulsa World

Oak Brook’s police and fire chiefs explained Tuesday that the village’s daytime population doesn’t directly impact their determinations of staffing needs, comments that came after a preliminary report from a village committee questioned the number that has been used for several years. The report, from Oak Brook’s Long-Term Strategic Planning Advisory Committee, contends that village staffing levels may be based on a mistaken daytime population that has been greatly overstated.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Chicago Tribune - Metered Site

Berkeley County’s sheriff says a man who was a junior at Macedonia High School has been charged in the burning of the school 23 years after the night it burned down. Daniel Scott Harris, 40, is charged with second-degree arson and second-degree burglary, Sheriff Duane Lewis said. Harris was arrested Tuesday night.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WCSC-TV CBS 5 Charleston

A memorial service for Cowlitz 2 Battalion Chief Mike Zainfeld will be held at 1 p.m. Oct. 1 at at New Life Fellowship Church at 2441 42 Ave. in Longview, according to a Cowlitz 2 press release issued Tuesday. Zainfeld, a 25-year veteran of Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue, took his own life on Sept. 19 after battling a job-related injury incurred by occupational stress, according to the agency.
- PUB DATE: 9/26/2019 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News

Yakima Air Terminal will be getting one million dollars from the Federal Aviation Administration's, airport improvement program. This money will go towards a new aircraft rescue and firefighting vehicle. "This piece of equipment is specifically required to respond within three minutes of any type of aircraft accident, " said Robert Peterson, airport director for Yakima Air Terminal.
- PUB DATE: 9/25/2019 6:39:01 PM - SOURCE: NBCRightNow.com