Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The EMS stations dataset consists of any location where emergency medical service (EMS) personnel are stationed or based out of, or where equipment that such personnel use in carrying out their jobs is stored for ready use. Ambulance services are included even if they only provide transportation services, but not if they are located at, and operated by, a hospital. If an independent ambulance service or EMS provider happens to be collocated with a hospital, it will be included in this dataset. The dataset includes both private and governmental entities. </SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Service Item Id: 88077f0ca8484f228a3cf4185b17ddaa
Copyright Text: Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD), Dept. of Homeland Security
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The locations of evacuations shelters were determined through Google searching and mapping. The locations of emergency evacuation shelters are depedent on individual emergency instances and may not be the same for every emergency. Additionally, every evacuation shelter listed may not be used in the case of an emergency.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Red Cross shelters are temporary shelters that are announced at the time of an emergency and therefore are not included in the dataset.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>Any location where fire fighters are stationed or based out of, or where equipment that such personnel use in carrying out their jobs is stored for ready use. Fire Departments not having a permanent location are included, in which case their location has been depicted at the city/town hall or at the center of their service area if a city/town hall does not exist. This dataset includes those locations primarily engaged in forest or grasslands fire fighting, including fire lookout towers if the towers are in current use for fire protection purposes. This dataset includes both private and governmental entities. Fire fighting training academies are also included.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Service Item Id: 88077f0ca8484f228a3cf4185b17ddaa
Copyright Text: Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD), Dept. of Homeland Security
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><P><SPAN>The local law enforcement locations feature class/ shapefile contains point location and tabular information pertaining to a wide range of law enforcement entities in the United States. Law Enforcement agencies "are publicly funded and employ at least one full-time or part-time sworn officer with general arrest powers". This is the definition used by the US Department of Justice - Bureau of Justice Statistics (DOJ-BJS) for their Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA). Unlike the previous version of this dataset, published in 2009, federal level law enforcement agencies are excluded from this effort. Data fusion techniques are utilized to synchronize overlapping yet disparate source data. The primary sources for this effort are the DOJ-BJS CSLLEA from 2008 and the previously mentioned 2009 feature class from Homeland Security Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data (HIFLD). This feature class contains data for agencies across all 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico.</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
Service Item Id: 88077f0ca8484f228a3cf4185b17ddaa
Copyright Text: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Homeland Security Infrastructure Program (HSIP) Team
Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>The layer is a merge of two datasets from the Deptartment of Homeland Security: Hospitals & Urgent Care Facilities.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>Urgent care is defined as the delivery of ambulatory medical care outside of a hospital emergency department on a walk-in basis without a scheduled appointment.</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>The Urgent Care dataset consists of any location that is capable of providing emergency medical care and must provide emergency medical treatment beyond what can normally be provided by an EMS unit, must be able to perform surgery, or must be able to provide recuperative care beyond what is normally provided by a doctor's office. In times of emergency, the facility must be able to accept patients from the general population or patients from a significant subset of the general population (e.g., children).</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
Service Item Id: 88077f0ca8484f228a3cf4185b17ddaa
Copyright Text: Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data, Dept. of Homeland Security