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Nearly 100,000 Local 911 Calls Each Year Sent to Wrong 911 Center, Require Transfer
The News4 I-Team requested call data from five 911 centers in the D.C. region and found nearly 100,000 calls each year, sometimes hundreds of calls a day, have to be transferred to reach the correct jurisdiction before help can be sent.
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A Day Before Resigning, HHS Secretary Makes it Harder for Vaccine Injuries to Get Compensation
Just as millions of Americans are rolling up their sleeves for a COVID-19 vaccine, the News4 I-Team has learned the outgoing Secretary of Health and Human Services made it much harder to get compensated for the most common vaccine injury. Just one day before leaving office last week, HHS Secretary Alex Azar signed a new rule to change a policy regarding...
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DC Homeland Security Commission ‘Annual' Report Long Overdue
When D.C. government created a Homeland Security Commission in 2006, the goal was to pull together top experts from around the capital region to offer recommendations to make the District safer, but 12 years later, the News4 I-Team found that commission only produced two “annual” reports, the most recent of which was in 2015.
