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100

Haleyville, Alabama 1968

What is the first 911 call?

100

Launched in 1996, Following the abduction of a 9-year-old girl in Texas

What is AMBER Alert?

100

Edema

What is swelling?

100

Four-wheel drive vehicle that is capable of responding to offroad incidents

What is a brush truck?

100

Using nuclear materials as a terrorist tactic with the intent to cause massive devastation

What is nuclear terrorism?

200

Used the first one-way radio communications in 1928

What is The Detroit police dept?

200

Issued when a child is believed to be in life threatening danger but there is no sign of them being abducted

What is a Missing Child Alert?

200

Intoxication from ethyl alcohol 

What is ETOH?

200

Helicopters or planes used to drop water or fire retardant in large quantities

What is Aerial Firefighting?

200

States that use force or the threat of force without declaring war to terrorize citizens and achieve a political goal

What is state terrorism? 

300

Implemented the first two-way radio

What is Bayonne, New Jersey 1933?

300

This plan was created in response to the growing number of law enforcement officers being assaulted, killed, or disappearing in the line of duty.

What is a Blue Alert?

300

A portable device that is able to analyze the heart rhythm and deliver an electrical shock to restore the heart to a normal rhythm. 

What is a Automated External Defibrillator (AED)?

300

Apparatus that is able to reach fires or situations in multiple story buildings when they are unable to reach the ground crews

What is a Platform or Ladder?

300

Terrorist groups participate directly in the cultivation, manufacture, transportation, or distribution of controlled substances and the monies derived from these activities

What is narcoterrorism? 

400

Declared the first National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week

What is California 198?

400

Utilized by the PST as a means of disseminating all alerts to field units and other resources.

What is a BOLO?

400

Syncope

What is fainting?

400

The right side of a structure as established by incident command

What is a Delta?

400

The use/threat of the use of violence of a criminal nature against people or property by an environmental-oriented group for environmental-political reasons.

What is eco-terrorism?

500

Was put into place in 1999

 What is The Wireless Communications and Public Safety Act (911 Act)?

500

Made effective by an executive order in October 2008

What is the Florida's Silver Alert Plan?

500

An interruption or severe reduction of oxygen rich blood supply to a part of the brain.

What is a Cerebrovascular Accident (CVA) or stroke?

500

An audible alarm which notifies other fire fighters when a team member becomes motionless

What is a Personal Alert Safety System (PASS)?

500

Used to seek to form self-determination which may range from gaining greater autonomy to establishing a complete sovereign state

What is nationalist terrorism?

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