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WASHINGTON -- It's interesting how issues become "the thing" in government. Following 9/11, when fire and police agencies had no radio contact with one another, communications interoperability became a high, national-level priority.
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GRAFTON, W. Va -- Taylor County is taking its fire and EMS communications digital.
The Flemington Volunteer Fire Department got a $300,000 homeland security grant to update the communication system at all Fire and EMS departments in the county. The grant is putting Taylor County on the same, interoperable radio system as neighboring counties, like Harrison and Marion.
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CONCORD, Calif -- When you go to buy a television or remodel your house, it's usually a good idea to compare prices. The same applies when government goes shopping with your tax dollars.
Unfortunately, that didn't happen when East Bay counties and cities started buying equipment and constructing a new emergency communications system that by one estimate will cost $110 million. Officials leading the effort to build the East Bay Regional Communications System now admit they erred by not obtaining competitive bids. In the meantime, millions of dollars were wasted.
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The city of Phoenix recently participated in the historic, multi-agency live testing of a prototype radio communications gateway connecting existing
regional public safety communications systems to each other. The testing was a collaborative effort involving the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS), the Phoenix Regional Wireless Network (PRWN), the Yuma Regional Communications System (YRCS) and Motorola, Inc. The test was initiated
by the Arizona Public Safety Communications Commission (PSCC) Statewide Radio System Demonstration Project and funded through a combination of local, state and federal funding streams.
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DALLAS -- At 10:32 a.m., a notice went out to police officials that the computer systems for the Dallas Police Department and Dallas Fire-Rescue had shut down. Both departments have gone to dispatching manually.
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