Application
#5:
RESP-STG
RESP-STG
•Incident Scene
Pre-Arrival Staging Guidance for Emergency Responders
•Problem
Addressed:
–Ad hoc staging/positioning of
the first public safety vehicles arriving at an incident can result in
potentially unsafe or unnecessarily congested conditions
•Description
–Pre-arrival situational
awareness is critical to public safety responder vehicle routing, staging and
secondary dispatch decision-making
–Still or video images of
an incident scene, surrounding terrain, and traffic conditions provided to
moving vehicles and dispatchers
–Improve staging
decisions based on available data, transmit staging plan (possibly graphic/map
based) transmitted to emergency vehicles en route
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