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Palm Beach upgrades to OpenSky for public-safety communications
Palm Beach (Fla.) Fire-Rescue will upgrade to the OpenSky digital telecommunications system, following the police department’s lead.
August 18, 2011
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From the Palm Beach Daily News: Palm Beach (Fla.) Fire-Rescue will upgrade to the OpenSky digital telecommunications system, following the police department’s lead.
The town switched to OpenSky on April 1, 2010, after joining a consortium in 1999 to identify and build a new radio system for emergency and other public-safety calls. Palm Beach is one of 32 municipalities that initially joined the Municipal Public Safety Communications Consortium, or the MPSCC. Seven remain — Palm Beach, West Palm Beach, Palm Beach Gardens, Atlantis, Jupiter, Juno Beach and the Palm Beach County School District — but more could decide to join later.
Palm Beach Fire-Rescue has received training with the new radios, and some upper-level staff members have been trying them out. They will go into general use in Fire-Rescue later this month. Read the entire article here.
