EAGLE, CO — Emergency medicine carries a deep aura of romance in America, with its first-responder traditions of adrenaline, acuity and bravery.

A study, based on millions of articles, charted deteriorating national sentiment ahead of the recent revolutions in Libya and Egypt.

TULSA, OK — 911, do you need police, fire or medical? The sometimes-long wait to hear those words from an emergency operator has Tulsa residents complaining.

FORT EDWARD, NY — Washington County supervisors have agreed to buy five new chairs for emergency dispatchers at $1,400 each.

MT. CLEMENS, MI — When Macomb County officials announced that three high-tech security cameras to be monitored by sheriff’s dispatchers had been installed in downtown Mt. Clemens, the city joined a growing list of U.S. and local communities with the technology.

Ten years after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks demonstrated huge gaps in the nation’s emergency communications systems, there is still a long list of standard networking capabilities that are unavailable to first responders and 9-1-1 operators.

NEW JERSEY — After 9/11, our nation changed. In losing thousands of lives, America got a clearer picture of who some of our enemies are and the ways they could attack at any moment.