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The Atlanta Fire Rescue Department is the fire department of the City of Atlanta and provides fire protection and first responder emergency medical services to the city of Atlanta, Georgia. [3] The department is responsible for an area of 132.6 square miles (343 km 2 ) with over 519,000 residents. [ 3 ]
The Appalachian foreland of Georgia, which lies in the northwest corner of the state, is separated from metamorphic rocks of the western Blue Ridge by the Talladega-Cartersville-Great Smoky fault. The oldest rocks of the foreland include Cambrian-Ordovician stratigraphy of the Chilhowee Group , Shady Dolomite , Rome Formation , Conasauga Group ...
Initial damages from around the state were estimated at $250 million. On September 26, Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine raised the estimated cost to $500 million with the potential for it to rise. Some 20,000 homes, businesses and other buildings received major damage and 17 Georgia counties received Federal Disaster Declarations ...
The first statewide geologic map of Georgia was published in 1825. It was a 1:1,000,000 scale map of Georgia and Alabama published by Henry Schenck Tanner. [3] In 1849 W.T. Williams published the geological features for the state on a 1:120,000 scale map within George White's (1849) Statistics of the State of Georgia report. [4]
Shelter-in-place recommendations and evacuation orders have been lifted Monday after a fire at a Georgia industrial plant caused a chemical reaction that prompted around 17,000 people to evacuate ...
May 9—The State Fire Marshal's office was on scene Thursday helping to determine the cause of a blaze that damaged an uninhabited duplex on Third Avenue SE. According to Fire Chief Jim McCoy ...
A recent inspection of Thalia Mara Hall by the State Fire Marshal Office's found 22 violations against the international fire code, according to a report reviewed by the Clarion Ledger.
Chattahoochee River in Norcross, Georgia, downstream from Lake Lanier and Buford Dam. The tri-state water dispute is a 21st-century water-use conflict among the U.S. states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida over flows in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin and the Alabama-Coosa-Tallapoosa River Basin.