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For rural communities, relying on neighboring cities to help during times of crisis isn’t always guaranteed, according to one Alaska city official, whose government has turned to the cloud to strengthen and protect its emergency dispatch services against potential power outages.
In the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, “we don’t have a lot of resources that are close to us,” said Kristi Meredith, dispatch manager at the Fairbanks Emergency Communications Center. “The next biggest city is 356 miles away … you can very easily be cut off from anybody.”
