To make such decisions, highly specialized information must be made available to the nation's more than 40,000 local emergency response teams.

Each city, town, or county in which any disaster occurs has the authority to declare a local emergency.

Call 911 (or your local emergency number) if normal consciousness does not return quickly.

Leave it to the judgement of local emergency medical personnel.

During a local or national emergency, wireless telephone networks are likely to become congested with calls.

The team is also available to handle local emergencies and can be activated by the county executive.

Some states, such as Texas and California, created separate state defense forces for assistance in local emergencies.

The former would be the individual State militias, employed in local emergencies and national defense.

She was a regular at the local psychiatric emergency room.

It adds value to the country by responding to national, state and local emergencies.