COLUMBUS, OH — A central Ohio county is preparing for a zombie outbreak on Halloween, hoping to train responders for more likely emergencies through an exercise inspired by a tongue-in-cheek blog posting from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that urged people to be prepared for a “zombie apocalypse.”

EUGENE, OR — It was a scenario emergency workers hope they never have to face in real life.

JACKSON, MS — An Atlanta man says he lost thousands of dollars while doing E 9-1-1 training with Hinds County Supervisor Robert Graham. Charles Carter, President of the National Emergency Communications Institute, says he worked with Graham for nearly ten years. Carter held a press conference in Jackson Monday.

MCPHERSON, KS — In the basement of McPherson’s Law Enforcement Center, the county’s dispatchers crowded around multicolored flip-books. They were searching their way through various emergency scenarios, coding broken bones and making initial triage decisions on imaginary victims. One at a time each dispatcher would take a “call,” throwing pages back and forth,...

CLINTON, CT — When one full-time police dispatcher left for another opportunity and then another part-time dispatcher followed suit, it left the department a bit thin.

FITCHBURG, MA — Things are looking a little less bright for criminals in Fitchburg.

JUNEAU, AK — Sitting in a classroom every day, eight hours for six weeks, staring at a computer screen, can be monotonous and mundane for even the most spirited, diligent workers.