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The United States has no plans to raise the security threat level because of a new tape of Osama bin Laden saying al-Qaida is planning attacks, counterterrorism officials said Thursday. The White House firmly rejected bin Laden's suggestion of a negotiated truce. "We don't negotiate with terrorists," Vice President Dick Cheney said in a television interview. "I think you have to destroy them."

 

Counterterrorism officials said they have seen no specific or credible intelligence to indicate an upcoming al-Qaida attack on the United States. Nor have they noticed an uptick in terrorist communications "chatter" — although that can dramatically increase or decrease immediately before an attack.

 

The Homeland Security Department said it would not raise the national threat alert at this time. But the tape prompted increased security at Los Angeles International Airport and other precautions at the city's port and water and power facilities.

 

The national terror threat level currently stands at yellow, the middle of five grades, signifying an elevated risk of attack. The government has raised the alert level to orange, signaling a high threat risk, seven times since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. In the following weeks and months, let's hope and pray the threat level grade will stay yellow and eventually someday return to green again...

 

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Safety Tip and bottom Line                       

 

Safety Preparedness – Storm Blackout – Don’t be left in the dark…

 

Storms can sometimes cut off your power for long periods of time, leaving you, quite literally, in the dark. But in the dark is the last place you want you to be!

 

You See Downed Wires

Treat all downed power lines as if they're live or carrying electric current. Do not touch or try to move them. It's especially important to keep children and animals away. Report downed power lines immediately to 911 or your local electric company emergency line. If a power line falls across a car that you're in, stay in the car. If you MUST leave it, jump clear so that no part of your body is touching the car when your feet touch the ground.

 

Generator

Some people prepare for the possibility of outages by installing a standby electric generator to keep lights and appliances or life-support devices running until service is restored. If you have a generator, be sure that it's installed safely. If it's not, you risk damaging your property and endangering the lives of Electric company workers who may be working on power lines some distance from your home. If someone in your household uses a life-support device, make plans now for backup power.

 

Heat

If a major storm arrives during cold weather, your house will stay warm for a while--even if the power goes out. Your home will stay warmer if it's well-insulated and free of drafts. Since wood-pellet stoves and many furnaces need electricity to work, they won't operate during an outage unless you have a generator. If you have a fireplace, keep an ample supply of dry firewood in an accessible spot. Burn wood or logs made of newspapers.

Don't burn charcoal indoors; it releases carbon monoxide, an odorless and sometimes deadly poison. Make sure that any backup heat source meets all safety requirements and is approved for indoor use.

 

Radios & Flashlights

Every home should have battery-powered or hand-crank radios, flashlights and lanterns, as well as fresh batteries. You can buy battery-powered lights that plug into a wall socket and come on automatically during an outage. If you must use candles, be careful and keep them away from flammable materials, drafts and children.

 

Water

If your water is pumped electrically and there is enough warning before a major storm, fill your bathtub and spare containers with water in case power goes off. You can flush electrically pumped toilets by pouring a bucket of water into the bowl.

 

Food

To help prevent food from spoiling, fill used plastic soda bottles with water and put them in the freezer now. During an extended outage, transfer the bottles to your refrigerator. If your power goes out, resist the urge to keep checking inside your freezer or refrigerator. Every time you do, you let warm air in, which reduces the unit's effectiveness. Adding block ice to your refrigerator and dry ice to the freezer will keep them cooler. Keep a supply of canned foods handy in case your power is off for a long time.

 

Appliance Protection

If your power goes off, unplug or turn off electric space heaters and stoves, washers, dryers, TVs, microwave ovens, computers, refrigerators and freezers. Otherwise, when power is restored, several appliances may come back on at the same time and overload your circuits or hot appliances may come on while you're away or asleep and pose a fire hazard. Leave a single lamp on to alert you when power returns. Remember to turn your appliances back on--one at a time--when conditions return to normal. If brief outages occur for a few seconds during a storm but power is fully restored after these short outages, you don't need to turn off your appliances.

If the lights don't go off but continually flicker or dim, you have a low-voltage condition and should take the outage precautions listed above. If you only have power in part of your home, first check for tripped circuit breakers or blown fuses in your electric panel; keep spare fuses of the correct size on hand. If breakers and fuses are normal, follow the outage instructions.

 

Vehicles

Keep your vehicle's fuel tank at least half-full, because many service stations can't pump gas during an outage. Know how to use the manual option on electric garage doors.

 

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Today, we live surrounded by safety items and devices; such apparels are becoming part of our everyday urban landscape. Nobody wishes to ever having to use any of those protection products – but to know they are there “just in case”, that should be everyone’s concern.

 

Have a good week,

 

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