Somerset County Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, the library, roads, public transport, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning, although fire, police and ambulance services are provided jointly with other authorities through the Devon and Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the South Western Ambulance Service.

The Nationalists eventually blamed three local commanders for the fire and executed them.

A local government agency, often a fire department or emergency management agency, agrees to sponsor CERT within its jurisdiction.

The local Endicott Estate burned to the ground in 1904 after the local volunteer fire department, responding to three separate fires burning simultaneously, reached the Endicott fire last.

In Michigan, most local government functions – police and fire, building and zoning, tax assessment, street maintenance, etc.

In building the railway the British had to confront strong local opposition, especially from Koitalel Arap Samoei, a diviner and Nandi leader who prophesied that a black snake would tear through Nandi land spitting fire, which was seen later as the railway line.

This would reduce the incidence of fire, and thus the likelihood of Nuclear Winter, with the trade off that radioactivity would increase in the larger amounts of dust lofted in local Fallout by these low altitude detonation heights.

The fire was brought under control on the morning on March 22 by local firefighters and those from surrounding cities in Texas and Hugo, Oklahoma.

Lewis and Clark's journals cite several occasions when they adopted the Native American method of setting the plains on fire to communicate the presence of their party or their desire to meet with local tribes.

The local way of life reflects the joint Norse and Scottish heritage including the Up Helly Aa fire festival, and a strong musical tradition, especially the traditional fiddle style.

Shriners often participate in local parades, sometimes as rather elaborate units: miniature vehicles in themes ( all sports cars ; all miniature 18-wheeler trucks ; all fire engines, and so on ), an " Oriental Band " dressed in cartoonish versions of Middle Eastern dress ; pipe bands, drummers, motorcycle units, Drum and Bugle Corps, and even traditional brass bands.

Initially, they are able to contact what remains of local fire and police services by radio.

When large parts of Uppsala burned down in 1702, Gustavianum, which contained the university library and its many valuable manuscripts, escaped the fire ; local lore has it that the aging Rudbeck stood on the roof directing the work of fighting the fire.

There are 89, 500 local governments, including 3, 033 counties, 19, 492 municipalities, 16, 500 townships, 13, 000 school districts, and 37, 000 other special districts that deal with issues like fire protection.

These are chartered as towns and villages and deal with local needs such as paving and lighting the streets, ensuring a water supply, providing police and fire protection, and waste management.

The abstractness is harnessed in the game by having the deck produce random terrain, and chances to fire, and the like, simulating uncertainty as to the local conditions ( nature of the terrain, etc.

" On approaching Yemen, tells ibn Ishaq, the rabbis demonstrated to the local people a miracle by coming out of a fire unscathed and the Yemenites accepted Judaism.

This vehicle is fitted with a Halon fire suppression system and a weapons mount similar to that on the M109 turret, usually mounting a Mk 19 grenade launcher for local defense against infantry and light armored vehicles.

With the advent of widespread electricity generation and power supply lines from the late 19th century on, problems also arose with equipment short-circuit failure affecting the power supply, and with local fire and shock hazard when the power line was struck by lightning.

* Coiling / rolling fire doors that are activated by building alarm systems or local smoke detectors must close automatically when signaled regardless of power.

The voivode acts as the head of central government institutions at regional level ( such as the police and fire services, passport offices, and various inspectorates ), manages central government property in the region, oversees the functioning of local government, coordinates actions in the field of public safety and environment protection, and exercises special powers in emergencies.

cooperate with other Federal departments and agencies, with State and local departments, agencies, and instrumentalities, and with interested persons, firms, institutions, and organizations.

There is a need for an expanded Federal effort to provide research and information to help guide state education departments and local school boards in existing programs.

The departments supervised local party officials and ministerial branches within their particular sphere.

:: Examples are databases of local work-groups and departments at regional offices, branch offices, manufacturing plants and other work sites.

The College provides oversight for the departments, the service organizations and the Innovation Lab, plus the local activities of the Stan Ackermans Institute.

In the 1920s, the FBI began issuing crime reports by gathering numbers from local police departments.

Many police departments advise burglary or robbery victims to visit local pawnshops to see if they can locate stolen items.

A list of departments of St. Pierre and Miquelon ( some local branch of national departments ):

Uruguay is divided into 19 departments whose local administrations replicate the division of the executive and legislative powers.

* National security-ORNL provides federal, state and local government agencies and departments with technology and expertise to support national and homeland security needs.

The city hall and other local government departments were relocated to the eastern bank of the river in the 1980s.

Once fishermen and biologists caught on to rising striped bass populations, many state natural resources departments started stocking striped bass in local lakes.

Most government departments and agencies have bilingual names ; for example, the Department of Internal Affairs Te Tari Taiwhenua, and places such as local government offices and public libraries display bilingual signs and use bilingual stationery.

Uruguay's administrative subdivisions consisted of nineteen territories called departments and governed by intendencias, which were subordinate to the central government and responsible for local administration.

Typically, local building permit departments are charged with enforcement of these standards on private and certain public properties.

The vast majority of state government agencies and departments are headquartered in Sacramento or in parts of Sacramento County near the city of Sacramento ; in turn, the larger agencies and departments also have local offices around the state which report to headquarters in Sacramento.

BIS strives to work cooperatively with state and local government officials, first responders, and federal executive departments and agencies, including the National Security Council, Department of Homeland Security, Department of State, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, and the Intelligence Community.

* Until 2001 local Directorates of Engineering and Housing ( DEH ), being constituents of the USACE, had been responsible for the housing, infrastructure and related tasks as environmental protection, garbage removal and special fire departments or fire alarm coordination centers in the garrisons of the U. S. Army abroad as in Europe ( e. g. Germany, as in Berlin, Wiesbaden, Karlsruhe etc.

Law enforcement within the geographic area of the county is provided by the respective town police departments, whereas in other states in the region such as New York and Vermont law enforcement would be provided by the local county sheriff's department.

Each city or town is responsible for local services such as schools, snow removal, sewers, fire department and police departments.

As is the case with all eight counties in Connecticut, there is no county government ; there is no county seat: in Connecticut, each town is responsible for all local services such as schools, snow removal, sewers, fire department and police departments.