On October 1, 2017 a lone gunman fired down from the 32^nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, killings dozens of people attending a country music festival.

U.S. Representatives Norma J. Torres (CA-35) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-1) introduced H.R. 1629, the 911 Supporting Accurate Views of Emergency Services (SAVES) Act to reclassify 9-1-1 call-takers and dispatchers.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites comments on Draft NISTIR 8196, Security Analysis of First Responder Mobile and Wearable Devices, a document that reviews the current and potential use cases of mobile and wearable devices by first responders and analyzes them from a cybersecurity perspective.

More than half of the general U.S. public support any applications for Unmanned Aircraft Systems, such as drones.

A report by the Government Accounting Office has sent up warnings signals on the push to more easily have police, fire, emergency medical and security responders communicate together at incidents. Things are not going well and going very slowly.