...home base in Boulder, Colo. and relayed to Houston's 911 number. In less than a minute, dispatchers at the Houston Fire Department read the crash data and decided how many engines and paramedics to send (because the crash was in New York...

...his home in the western Galveston County city of Santa Fe, said weather service meteorologist Dave Schwertz. Houston Fire Department workers were sent to rescue people stranded in their homes and vehicles by high water on the city's southeast...