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The Chemical Companion makes it easy for first responders to access information quickly from multiple paths. The system is also very robust and easy to update so we can continue to add more chemicals.

Gisele Bennett

It is a day to remember the first responders and all those who came to the rescue, ... and a day to remember all those who wear the cloth of our nation around the world, who protect and defend the freedoms and liberties that we cherish.

Gordon England

Should remind people of the role the fire service plays. They are the first responders when something happens. We lost 343 firefighters that day. Annually, we generally lose over 100 per year in the line of duty.

Bill Metcalf

It's worth exploring if it offers any potential at all to protect emergency responders or industrial workers. Without doing things like this, you'll never know where it could go.

Jack Williamson

Local responders are on top of disasters while it takes state and federal officials arrive many hours to many days later. Yet, we continue to see more and more layers from the top levels of the chain of command on down to us.

Robert Hurst

The lack of this communication for America's first responders has put them and put all of us -- all of our communities -- in danger.

Debbie Stabenow

We have not dealt with the fact that first responders will (also) be victims in a catastrophic event.

Ross Grayson

You clearly did your duty as law enforcement, but the question comes to bear about the interface between emergency preparedness and our first responders locally. We want to make sure there is intercommunication between agencies.

Sen. Donald Defronzo

These funds will help to ensure that our first responders have access to the best training and equipment available, improving their operational capabilities and enhancing public safety in New Hampshire.

Charles Bass

They need to make it easy for emergency responders, ... anything we could do to help mitigate that problem or deal with uncertainty.

David Burnett

(First responders) can go inside without breaking down doors.

Barbara Bradley

This is a day for us to remember all those loved ones that were lost and everyone who suffered so much that day, ... It is a day to remember the first responders and all those who came to the rescue. And a day to remember all those who wear the cloth of our nation around the world, who protect and defend the freedoms and liberties that we so cherish.

Gordon England

The most important benefit to the subscriber is when first responders have the patient's emergency medical information easily available on a mobile phone.

Keith Buckley

Every day, first responders put their own lives on the line to ensure our safety. The least we can do is make sure they have the tools to protect and serve their communities.

Joseph Lieberman

Hurricane Katrina showed that many police and first responders may go home to take care of their families.

Brian Garrett

We hope to have better communication with first responders and better communication with our nursing homes.

Robert Hemminger

The most challenging risks that emergency responders need protection from are hazardous chemicals that they could inhale. These hazards are the most difficult to identify and the equipment used to protect responders from them can be the most cumbersome.

Henry Willis

When terrorists strike, first responders are the first people we turn to.

Senator Patrick Leahy

First responders are really needed even more. (Katrina) depleted the National Guard; the Red Cross is really stretched. We're the eyes and ears for the first 72-96 hours to help out the community.

Brandon Lewis

Humanitarian responders need to have flexibility to respond to needs on the ground by the fastest and most cost-efficient means possible, be it in-kind or locally purchased food aid. Having cash contributions available for local or regional purchases could increase the speed and volume of food available to address a crisis and would enable us to feed many more people.

Raymond Offenheiser

I think September 11th showed very dramatically how first responders are absolutely necessary in a community.

Jim Coleman

We've struggled for many years to change the image of cabin crew from frivolous airheads and after 9/11 it is clearer than ever that we are safety professionals and first responders.

Patricia Friend

The type of thing that can be handled by a two-man team with a small fire extinguisher. We're not firefighters of first responders, but we're trained to know what we can handle as well as what we can't handle.

Royal Sheeley

As we see the first responders begin to ebb, we're seeing the private sector pick up, ... I believe those numbers exceed the number of first responders.

Patrick Taylor

In exercises we had never been able to simulate with sufficient fidelity how dramatic the challenge is when the first responders aren't able to respond.

Admiral Timothy Keating

They sort of became hero responders. We are very grateful for that.

Jim Beasley

There was a cost to this. From the resort's perspective, I'm sure there was some kind of cost to this. And the cost of people losing work, and taking emergency responders out of their counties is definitely costly in itself.

Michael Schmitt

Like everybody else, we have heightened concern about who we release information to. We will provide information on hazardous shipments to emergency responders and bona fide public agencies that have a need to know, and we are cooperating and coordinating with emergency response, safety and security agencies more closely than ever now.

Bob Sullivan

This is an opportunity for emergency managers and first responders to see what is out there and [help them] bring it into their communities to better serve their citizens.

John Legare

It is up to the state and local folks to exercise for catastrophic events when the first responders are wiped out.

Michael Kucharek

We should not try to make the federal government our first responders, ... But when a disaster of the size of this hurricane hits, we should have better mechanisms in place that allow our federal government to restore order and provide relief.

Martin O'malley

We recognize the need to upgrade our 911 centers. It's critical that our first responders have that information at hand as they're responding to the scene of an event.

Jason Keller

We understand in choosing one charity over another, there's always going to be the fact that we made a choice. The only reason I think that we did that here is because we had the precedent of doing it and the Red Cross are first responders.

Deborah Hagan

This won't be a graded test, but it will be practice to make us better responders.

Anita Yoder

When state and local responders are overwhelmed and incapacitated it may be that our military is the last resort.

Fran Townsend

Emergency responders typically look at new equipment with a little bit of cynicism. You can imagine how much equipment is touted as 'solving all of their problems,'.

Robin Murphy

We knew there were certain kidney cancer patients who responded to this drug, but we didn't know the mechanism behind the response. We had to determine the mechanism of response so we could identify the responders.

George Thomas

Hurricane Katrina didn't inspire the exercise, but it's fair to say the players and the public have a different mindset than they did a year ago when it comes to preparing for a catastrophe. This exercise gives responders an opportunity to learn lessons and tighten up planning processes without real-world damage or casualties.

Doug Eames

ICE First was developed with the help of first responders. They know the importance of having emergency medical and contact information readily available. Now that ICE First is commercially available, we've decided to offer it free to first responders so they can help spread the word and encourage others to carry this potentially life-saving information on mobile phones.

Keith Buckley

This is not just a job for first-responders, ... They're doing this for their families and their communities. Some of these guys don't want to take a break. They say there's too much work to be done. We're tired. So what? But we've got to look at it, not as a glass half empty, but half full, or we'll miss the positive. We're going to make it through this.

Pat Sullivan

The first responders were incapacitated.

Beverly Cigler

They want faster data services for their first responders and city workers, but they don't want to go with cellular.

Ellen Daley