How long will it take?
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s great that everyone is getting on board to create a common frequency for first responders. I’ve taken Red Cross and Nert training and I think the world of the people who work as First Responders and risk their lives for others. But it boggles my mind that this didn’t happen years ago, and that the Bay Area will be the first in the Nation to achieve this…
From the SF Chronicle
Emergency communication system to link Bay Area cities
Dozens of Bay Area police, fire and transit agencies will be able to talk to each other on a single frequency during a disaster, making the region the first in the nation to coordinate all its emergency communications systems, officials promised Tuesday on the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Working through a joint powers agency, the authorities will spend two years on a plan to replace the patchwork of radio frequencies or spectrum whose flaws were apparent during the 1991 East Bay hills fire and after the 1989 earthquake. During those disasters, as in the response to Sept. 11 and Hurricane Katrina, technology hindered so-called first responders from communicating with each other.
And so,
By 2009, officials said, Bay Area residents can rest assured that emergency crews will be able to talk with one another and respond where help is needed in major disasters such as fires, earthquakes and terrorist incidents.
2009 is a long time to wait. In the meantime, don’t just sit around, go out and get some training of your own:
San Francisco Red Cross
San Francisco NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team)
Also:
Get Prepared
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Anonymous at October 5th, 2007 at 2:39 am ( )