Appointed to an emergency military command, Theodosius hurried to Britain to restore Roman control following a massive 'barbarian' incursion.

Several states and cities, including Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Portland, Ore., had planned to open emergency command centers to speed response to any possible attack.

He then repeated his line of argument from the night before that the city's current emergency command structure was muddled.

In the rear of the column he saw Lieutenant King who had been temporarily detached from his own troop to serve with this emergency command of Lawton's.

Lawlor was quite familiar with the emergency command and control continuity of government center built more than a mile beneath the surface of an antenna-studded mountain in northwest Virginia near the West Virginia border.

He heard the shouts, recorded in his minds die emergency commands.

A moment later, Uhura found her computer channel 233 and punched in an emergency command she had never used before.

"The city is trying to handle this the best it can," said an aide at the city's emergency command center, who would not give his name.

The federal government was building scores of "emergency command and relocation centers," boring into bedrock or carving out mountains in a wide arc around the nation's capital from Pennsylvania to North Carolina.

Despite pledges by the Fire Department and the Police Department to work more closely, a formal system of emergency command has not been entirely ironed out, he said.