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E 9-1-1 Technology to be Shared with RI Communities

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12-09-2008

10:00 a.m. Wednesday December 10, 2008 State Room State House

The Rhode Island Department of Public Safety Director Col. Brendan Doherty and E 9-1-1 Associate Director Ray Labelle will present information, formally distribute imagery technology to help Rhode Island’s communities more accurately plan for first responder missions, GIS mapping, transportation and community planning in a meeting at the State House Wednesday morning.

Representatives of some 30 communities are gathering to obtain the “Pictometry” hard drives which enable local officials to have a multiple views of all aspects of buildings and roads that exist in their communities. The funding for this project has come from a federal Homeland Security grant that has come from the RI Emergency Management Agency to E 9-1-1.

 

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