Mobile Situational Awareness Solutions – What First Responders Should Look For

Mobile Situational Awareness Solutions – What First Responders Should Look For

Providers with FirstNet and other leading certifications, along with Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) partnerships have a distinct advantage in neutralizing customer concerns in this area.

Frost.com

December 31, 2019

The mobile situational awareness solutions market is in an early stage, with a limited number of small vendors jockeying for attention and market share.

What is a mobile situational awareness solution? These applications put near real-time information about critical field situations at the disposal of emergency first response teams via their mobile devices. This information typically includes a mapping of the area and its surroundings, location and status of personnel and other markers, alerts, relevant photos and videos, and up-to-the-minute guidance from central command.
READ FULL ARTICLE

Westminster Couple Meets Dispatcher Who Helped Them Deliver Baby (CO)

A Westminster family is thanking a police dispatcher who helped them welcome a new baby right in their living room. Liz and Scott Riddle delivered a little girl named Claire on Dec. 12.

Scott called 911 and was connected with Westminster Communications Specialist Rebecca Bernal.

“We have an older daughter so I’d already seen one birth but I wasn’t involved at all, obviously. I don’t know how to deliver a baby,” said Scott.

Click Here for Video and Full Story…

Working on a Holiday: Interview with a Dispatcher (OH)

ZANESVILLE, Ohio — “We’re just here to take care of business.”

Rick Creeks is a Dispatcher at the Muskingum County Sheriff’s Office and works some holidays. “As far as family knows, you know they know they have to work around our schedules. They kind of do their thing until we’re able to join whatever activities might be going on for the holiday,” he tells WHIZ News.

Creeks is among a group of professionals in law enforcement, health care, telecommunications, broadcasting & hospitality who keep things going…