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By Greg Bogosian FireRescue1 Staff Background The Lititz Fire Company No. 1 in Pennsylvania has been a volunteer fire department since 1894. Covering a 10.2-square-mile area which ...
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By Jon Tunison MLive.com GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — In early 2008, when fire ravaged the 100-unit Indian Village Condominiums, Grand Rapids firefighters could have used a cohesive ...
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By Sharia Davis FOX Toledo News PERRYSBURG TOWNSHIP, Ohio — Perrysburg Township firefighters have invested in new technology to dispatch emergency personnel to an accident ...
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By Brian Bethel The Abilene Reporter-NewsABILENE, Texas — A $130,000 emergency medical dispatch system should help the Abilene Fire Department and ambulance provider ...
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By Doug Page The Dayton Daily NewsDAYTON, Ohio — Since moving to the Montgomery County Regional Dispatch Center last year, Dayton police, firefighters and medics complain ...
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By Elena Ferrarin The Chicago Daily Herald CARY, Ill. — The Cary Fire Protection District is planning to switch its fire alarm system for commercial buildings and agencies ...
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By Colleen Long The Associated PressNEW YORK — The city Sanitation Department met its goal of plowing every street at least once by Thursday morning, a spokesman said as city ...
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I've never worked anywhere that the occasional street mix-up didn't occur between a 9-1-1 caller, communications center, and responding units in the field. As the neighbor ...
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By Erin Hicks FireRescue1 Staff911 dispatchers are the first to hear about an incident scene that needs responders' attention — now thanks to EnRoute, they'll also be the ...
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By Maggie Ybarra The El Paso TimesEL PASO, Texas — Fewer firetrucks and firefighters will be dispatched to emergency calls after the Fire Department changes the way it ...
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By Allison McKinnon The Press EnterpriseRIVERSIDE COUNTY, Calif. — This fire season, Riverside County firefighters will no longer have to rely on Thomas Guide map books or ...
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By Scott M. Bruner FireRescue1 Product EditorA number of overseas companies rolled out new products at Las Vegas' IWCE show in March. China's Hytera took the opportunity to ...
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By Carole Deck The Intelligencer Journal TERRE HILL, Pa. — Terre Hill Borough Council gave a thumbs-up on Jan. 12 to a new Emergency Responder Reply System for Terre Hill ...
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By Scott M. Bruner FireRescue1 Product Editor When Columbus, Ohio, dispatchers watched in horror as their computer aided dispatch system (CAD) went down on New Year's Day 2010, ...
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There are lots of ways to address issues that may occur in a new or upgraded radio system. Some are cheap and easy while others are complex and expensive, requiring intensive ...
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As the second wave of the H1N1 pandemic is felt around the country, a familiar buzz phrase has once again come to the forefront of emergency planning and response — syndromic ...
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By Bob Smith APCO International Director of Strategic DevelopmentThe phrase "dispatch equipment" usually refers to the non-telephony and non-radio equipment used by ...
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Many communications centers today incorporate some form of "ride-along" program into their employee training process — enabling EMTs and paramedics to show first-hand the ...
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The Associated Press Financial Wire WATERLOO, Iowa — An emergency call center in the basement of the county jail in Waterloo, Iowa, became the first in the United States to ...
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By Doug Wyllie FireRescue1 StaffEvery day, firefighters, paramedics, police officers and other public safety professionals have to communicate mission-critical information — ...
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