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FDNY’s Deployment Planning Enhancements for Disaster Preparedness - Post 9/11
Presented
by Dr. Raj Nagaraj at: 2006 FRI-IChiefs
Presentation Overview:
This presentation discusses the strategic and real time tools that FDNY has adopted to enhance fire apparatus and ambulance deployment analysis. These enhancements, in the wake of 911, have gained great significance, as critical areas of Fire and EMS deployment require state-of-the-art decision support tools to improve strategic planning for Fire and EMS leadership and real time planning for dispatchers.
Deccan’s software suite consisting of CAD Analyst, ADAM (Apparatus Deployment Analysis Module), BARB (Box-Area Automated Run Card Builder) and LiveMUM (Live Move-Up Module) play a crucial role in the above planning. FDNY, taking advantage of such a powerful suite, effectively becomes its own in-house deployment consultant. FDNY’s Fire and EMS deployment issues due to fluctuating emergency incident rates, major disasters such as train wrecks, bridge collapses, floods, large building fires, earthquakes, riots, terrorist attacks etc… would be handled efficiently with Deccan applications.
This presentation will provide an insight into how FDNY addresses Disaster Preparedness, Homeland Protection and Security.
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Presented
by Dr. Raj Nagaraj & Brent Finster (Communication Center Manager, Contra
Costa Fire Emergency Communications Center) at: 2007 CAL NENA Conference
Presentation Overview:
Communication Centers are switching from the traditional run-card based CAD to AVL-based CAD to assist with dispatch recommendations. But there exist insecurities and possible anomalies in the recommendation that need to be verified before going live. This presentation highlights capabilities of a tool - Dispatch Validator (DiVa), a stand alone tool, which is used to validate your AVL-based CAD recommendations. DiVa is used to detect and correct anomalies in real-time and to ensure accurate CAD recommendations. It can be used as a back up tool in the event the AVL-based CAD crashes, or in the absence of a CAD. Additionally, the presentation focuses on the need for road network validation and how DiVa can be used to verify road networks for the CAD. The presentation also highlights DiVa’s role in disaster preparedness. Even if CAD does not provide for inclusion of mutual aid stations, with DiVa you can include mutual aid stations in run-cards, so that the department can be better prepared for disasters.
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Taking the Guess Work Out of Move-ups
To be presented at: 2007 APCO INTERNATIONAL, 2007 FRI-IChiefs
Presentation Overview:
911 Dispatchers often face increased emergency incident rates in different areas of its coverage and at unpredictable times. It is imperative to cover up any holes in coverage area by doing temporary relocation (move-ups) of fire and ambulance apparatus swiftly and in a prudent manner. This presentation focuses on a new tool, called LiveMUM, for taking the guesswork and delays out of move-ups. The tool taps into any CAD in real-time to make intelligent move-up recommendations based on live data, business rules and/or operational procedures. This presentation explains the need for move up, how they are done currently, problems with current approaches, and motivates a new auto mated approach for composing real-time move-up algorithms. These algorithms track current location of region-wide resources by type, identify coverage holes, and make repositioning recommendations to balance coverage and improve response deployment times.
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Run-Cards for Disaster Preparedness
To be presented at: 2007 APCO INTERNATIONAL, 2007 FRI-IChiefs
Presentation Overview:
Since 9/11, Homeland Security, states and cities have been making enormous strides to collect region-wide disaster preparedness information on vital resources in order to become better prepared. However, unless this information is organized properly, it can be of little use. This presentation focuses on tools that exploit disaster preparedness information to recommend optimal actions during disasters. Spotlighted will be an automatic run-card builder that builds region-wide lists of all resources by type and by address so as to enable Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) software scale up to large disasters.
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