The Harford County Division of Emergency Operations and Sheriff’s Office have launched inquiries into the circumstances surrounding a Sheriff’s Office sergeant who suffered a medical emergency last week. The sergeant was identified by sources as Noel Raufaste, a 10-year veteran of the agency and a member of its police services bureau. Raufaste was on patrol […]
Harford County Sheriff’s Office Citizen’s Police Academy Week 9: Emergency Operations Center
A creaky-looking leather chair. A large easel with a map of Harford County. A worn, wooden desk, on which rests a rotary phone, a tube radio, and a reel-to-reel recorder. Yesterday, this was the county’s emergency operations and dispatch center in downtown Bel Air. Today, the center occupies a low-slung building in Hickory, a decades-old […]
Minor Earthquake Rattles Harford County; 1-in-10 Chance of Aftershock “Of Similar Strength” by 2 p.m. Wednesday
Bracing for a hurricane in the Atlantic, Harford County weathered a different kind of natural disaster Tuesday when a minor earthquake shook the area just before 2 p.m., causing widespread reports of damage and brief evacuations of many local buildings. The quake registered 5.9 on the Richter Scale at its center approximately 40 miles northwest […]
Smoke Smell Detected Across Harford County; Authorities Urge Residents to Use Caution in Outdoor Exposure
From the Harford County Emergency Operations Center: This is Harford County Emergency Manager Rick Ayers, currently there is a 6,000 acre brush fire in Virginia that began on August 4th and it is only 10% contained. The smell of the smoke from that fire has began to reach Harford County with-in the last hour. Those […]
