Emergency Response

The State of Ohio-Butler County Incident Management Team could soon be designated as a federally deployable Supplemental Response Team with FEMA, meaning the team could respond to disasters of all kinds directly under FEMA's direction.

Columbus officials announced the results of a new 911 alternative response pilot program.

During the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday, police and citizens carried the wounded to safety. Paramedics did not. As a rule, medics don't enter…