Mobile Command Center Packs Command-and-Control Technology
Mar 27, 2008,
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The Eureka Fire Protection District's (EFPD) Missouri Fire Region C Mutual Aid Mobile Command Center, stationed at the Eureka, Mo., Fire Department, is designed to tackle any major emergency within the 82-square-miles it protects.
The vehicle itself was manufactured by Pierce, and features satellite, night vision, emergency lights, six Dell laptops, a server and six cellular phones. On site at major incidents, the mobile command center uses E•SPONDER Express, created by Convergence Communications, to manage and support incidents within the National Incident Management System/Incident Command System (NIMS/ICS) structure.
At the agency level, E•SPONDER allows the pre-staging and creation of Incident Action Plans, resource tracking and electronic versions of ICS series forms. The customizable software enables diverse governmental or corporate entities to exchange information necessary for daily activities, plan events, coordinate command and control during events and incidents, and review and evaluate performance afterward.
E•SPONDER Alerts provides a notification capability that enables two-way communication for up to thousands of people, triggered automatically in workflow or on demand as the situation dictates.
"With this new technology, our ability to adapt to the situations we are responding to is much richer," said EFPD Fire Chief Greg Brown in a press release. "Our ability to better communicate, coordinate and collaborate is allowing us to provide services in ways we've never been able to before, while meeting the obligations we have to our citizens, as well as our local and federal partners."
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