”We’re seeing lives being saved on a scale that we’ve never even dreamed,” said the president of the National Emergency Number Association

SOURCE: nbcsandiego.com

DATE: March 11, 2019

The state of California will overhaul all of its emergency call centers with a new technology in hopes of improving its location accuracy and situational awareness.

RapidDeploy is a new, cloud-based system that will improve location accuracy and natural disaster awareness for responders with live data feeds for fires, earthquakes, flooding, traffic, and incidents.

The California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) confirmed Monday it awarded a contract to RapidDeploy to install this technology across all 440 California 911 call centers will be updated with this technology.

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