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Technology
9-1-1? There’s an App for That
April 15, 2010There’s a new iPhone app called Silent Bodyguard. When activated, the application silently sends an emergency alert and your GPS location to a pre-set list of phone numbers and e-mail addresses at 60-second intervals without alerting onlookers or potential attackers. Public safety telecommunicators need to know how to manage those calls and have a procedure in place for how to best use the GPS information being delivered to you.
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Operations
Making New-Age Plans
March 1, 2010In 2008, the North Charleston (S.C.) Fire Dept. implemented a mobile digital pre-plan system and a dispatching and mapping program. The technology has made a major difference in how the agency responds to emergencies.
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