Posted On Monday, November 14, 2011
The most advanced emergency command vehicles in the world – a user solutions guide
In recent years the new generation of emergency command vehicles introduced by UK fire and rescue, ambulance and police services has helped support huge improvements in the way these services manage the different types of incidents with which they deal. In the past commanders and their support teams used old style incident command vehicles, usually little more than mobile (paper) map rooms with a few radios and whiteboards.
Now services are in an era of improved communications across incident grounds and back to headquarters, using mobile satellite broadband and live wireless video, thereby delivering high speed data flows, real time situational awareness and a Common Operational Picture – within all levels of services and between services. This is important, because it means services are now able to perform much more effectively (and some of the mistakes of the past, highlighted by major incidents where lives have been lost unnecessarily, are less likely to happen).
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