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9-11 first responder: Mass notification 'might have made a difference that day'

May 4, 2012Tess Nacelewicz

I just got back from an emergency management seminar in Burlington, Mass. sponsored by Notifier by Honeywell. The May 3 event opened with remarks from Thomas Von Essen, who was New York City's fire commissioner at the time of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, about the importance of mass notification/emergency communication systems. Von Essen spoke for only about 10 minutes, but hearing from someone so involved in the experiences of that terrible day about how mass notification/ECS...

Ara Beurekjian, Jack Poole, Jack Welch, Jim Yantosca, mass notification, Peter Ebersold, Security Systems News (SSN), Thomas Von Essen


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