In mid-September 2003, Hurricane Isabel slammed into the Atlantic coast, leaving a path of destruction that extended from the Outer Banks of North Carolina and westward to the Appalachians. In ...

Officials conduct a preliminary damage assessment in Suffolk, Va., following a tornado in May 2008. Photo courtesy of Liz Roll/FEMA. It’s easy to quantify success more than two years after the ...

COMCARE, the Emergency Interoperable Consortium (EIC), and the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM) announced the successful trial of new emergency data communications standards ...

Intermedix and Rave Mobile Safety announced a new partnership integrating the companies’ emergency alert and crisis information management platforms. “Connectivity and interoperability are key ...

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released Tactical Interoperable Communications Scorecards: Summary Report and Findings on January 3, 2007. The report assesses 75 metropolitan areas' progress ...

Federal, state and local emergency management and first responding agencies in the National Capital Region (NCR) – which includes Washington, DC and nearby parts of Virginia and Maryland — continue to ...

23 July 2007 Emergency Management Systems across the nation are plagued by the lack of interoperable wireless communications systems. Communications failures during both 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina ...

Just as methodical programs to improve emergency communications interoperability are building up speed, new technologies threaten to derail the entire effort. Emergency responders find that new mobile ...

On 9/11, the interoperability problem was born, or so you might have thought. The reality is that the fire service has been struggling with the issue of interoperability for decades. Whether it was ...

Communications interoperability is a problem facing nearly all of the nation’s 50,000 emergency response authorities that will take years to fix. But Wayne County, Mich., has already launched a system ...

Coordinated emergency responses within and between the fire, ambulance and police service is hampered by the lack of standardised operational procedures, rather than technology according to a new ...