Verizon Frontline supports wildfire response efforts in Oregon and Washington
30 Julio 2024 - 11:00AM
The Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Team recently deployed in
support of more than 6,800 first responders battling 15 wildfires
in Oregon and Washington.
This deployment marks the team’s latest response to a request
for support from public safety agencies engaged in emergency
response operations. In the first seven months of 2024, the Verizon
Frontline Crisis Response Team has responded to nearly 800 such
requests from more than 400 different agencies in 44 states.
The team delivered a Satellite Picocell on a Trailer (SPOT) and
multiple other Verizon Frontline solutions to the Morrow County
Sheriff’s Department in Oregon to help provide first responders on
the front lines of fire response and containment operations with
critical voice and data service. SPOTs were also deployed to
wildfires in the Eugene, Oregon and Spokane, Washington areas.
SPOTs are rapidly deployable units that can provide wireless
network coverage in remote areas where connectivity can prove
challenging, like the mountainous and densely wooded terrain in
Oregon and Washington. SPOTs have the capability to provide mission
critical cellular and Wi-Fi coverage with satellite backhaul.
In addition to SPOT trailers, the Verizon Frontline Crisis
Response Team provided on-scene public safety agencies across
Oregon and Washington with nearly 200 additional Verizon Frontline
solutions.
The team is also supporting first responders battling to contain
the Durkee Fire in Baker and Malheur Counties in Oregon, currently
the largest wildfire in the contiguous 48 states at over 288
thousand acres.
“I’m proud of our team’s swift response to requests for support
from the first responders battling these fires,” said Chandler
Martello, a senior manager with the Verizon Frontline Crisis
Response Team. “As always, our team remains ready to provide our
public safety partners the mission-critical communications support
they need when and where it’s needed.”
The Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Team provides on-demand,
emergency assistance during crisis situations to government
agencies and emergency responders on a 24/7 basis at no cost to the
supported agencies. Verizon Frontline Crisis Response Team members
set up portable cell sites, Wi-Fi hotspots, charging stations and
other Verizon Frontline devices and solutions that enable
communications and/or boost network performance.
Verizon Frontline is the advanced network and technology built
for first responders – developed over three decades of partnership
with public safety officials and agencies on the front lines – to
meet their unique and evolving needs.
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ) was formed on
June 30, 2000 and is one of the world’s leading providers of
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and voice services and solutions on its award-winning networks and
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network connectivity, security and control.
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