by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 11, 2021 | Comm Center News
“911 calls could take longer to answer, longer to process, longer to be dispatched,” John Grappy, the Director of Public Safety for Erie County said. “There’s an expectation that when someone is calling 911 during their greatest need that we’re going to have adequate staffing to answer, process, and dispatch those emergency calls.”
Right now they are struggling to do that. Grappy told Erie News Now there are only eight telecommunicators per shift, down from 10…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 11, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Rural Broadband
As most of you know by now, the infrastructure bill was finally passed by the House last week. It had already been passed by the Senate and is now on its way to the White House for the President’s signature. This bill includes $65 Billion in funding for rural broadband services. Whether there are provisions for oversight and coordination of how this money is spent, who spends it, and for what technologies is unclear.
As I have said before, my concern is that without some form of oversight we could end up with a patchwork quilt of non-compatible broadband deployments in rural areas. Some think broadband must be fiber-only and some believe there are a number of technologies that can be used to deploy broadband services in rural America…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 11, 2021 | Comm Center News
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the Chemung County Office of Fire and Emergency Management has received accreditation through New York’s Local Emergency Management Accreditation Program. Chemung County joins 13 other emergency management organizations in receiving achieve accreditation. The county joins Albany, Broome, Erie, Livingston, Madison, Montgomery, Nassau, Oneida, Saratoga, Washington, and Wayne counties, as well as New York City, in this formal recognition
“It’s clear how critical local emergency management is for our state’s resilience as we continue to experience example after example of extreme weather, and Chemung County’s accreditation is a necessary step that all of our Counties should take,” said Governor Hochul…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
WILTON — The town’s first responders, including its police department, fire department and emergency medical services, are set to make a decision within the next two weeks on whether they will present a plan for a new emergency communications system or fall in line with the state police system.
While initial estimates showed that a standalone system would cost less than adding equipment to join the state police radio system, a full study has been done by Paul Zito, owner of New England Radio Consultants…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
Public safety collaboration platform gets DHS investment
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has awarded Mobility 4 Public Safety $1.5 million to advance its dedicated messaging and collaboration tool for first responders.
The company’s Bridge 4 Public Safety (Bridge4PS), a secure communications platform exclusively for public safety practitioners in the U.S., was initially launched with funding from DHS’ Mobility Acceleration Coalition as a proof-of-concept in 2019. It was designed to close the communication gap for emergency responders by enabling safe and encrypted messaging as well as interoperability for sharing files, locations, pictures and videos across different agencies and on iOS and Android personal and agency devices. Navigation services are supplied Google Maps…
