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Wavelengths
By Donny
Jackson
For years, I’ve attended trade shows and conferences that
have featured speakers bemoaning the fact that first responders in real
life do not have nearly the data capabilities used by emergency-response
personnel depicted on popular TV shows. However, there are some
encouraging signs that the gap could be narrowing quickly.
One of the most impressive presentations at last week’s Association of
Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Winter Summit was a
description of the Virtual Alabama online information-sharing project
given by Jim Walker, the state’s director of homeland security.
Leveraging the Google Earth platform as a visual background,Virtual
Alabama can provide a wealth of information with a click of a mouse to
agencies responding to an incident. The location of fire hydrants, gas
stations, electrical lines and gas lines can be displayed graphically to
quickly show sources of potential resources — or hazards, if the
infrastructure has been damaged during an event. Tax records have been
integrated into the system, so damage estimates needed for federal aid
can be delivered within hours of an incident, instead of weeks later.
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In the
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By Donny
Jackson
A second phase of Virtual USA and a new online collaboration
tool are among the initiatives to enhance information-sharing efforts
among first-responder agencies that the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security science and technology (DHS S&T) directorate announced this
week.
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By Donny
Jackson
A U.S.-based remote public-safety answering point (PSAP) and
an eventual portable PSAP are key components of a proposal to restore
emergency calling in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, a representative from the
Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) said this
week.
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By Mary Rose
Roberts
New Zealand’s Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency
Management will deploy E•SPONDER’s incident management software
solution within the National Crisis Management Center and make it
available to all regional civil defense emergency management groups,
said Elaine Queathem, the company’s director of business development.
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