Intro: Texas Incidents and Events - Texas Public Safety Broadband

Intro: Texas Incidents and Events - Texas Public Safety Broadband

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Texas Single Point of Contact (SPOC)
Deputy Assistant Director, Law
Enforcement Support Division
Public Safety Communications Service
Texas Department of Public Safety
Kumar Appaiah/Wikimedia Commons
Possum Kingdom Complex Fire
April 2011
San Antonio Flood – May 2013
North Texas Ice Storm – December 2013
G.J. McCarthy/The Dallas Morning News
Wichita Falls
Hotter’N Hell Hundred Bike Race
109 Law Enforcement Personnel
4,300 Volunteers
819 Classified EMS, Fire, Nurse and
Doctors
30,000 Visitors
$6.8 M Economic Impact
Event overwhelms local cellular service,
requiring additional nodes
Two-day Event
Houston to Austin
3,000 Cyclists
180 Miles
BP MS 150 Amateur Radio
Network
Texas Panhandle Blizzard - February 25, 2013
Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
February 1, 2003
Double Diamond fire, Fritch TX - May 11, 2014
Post-Hurricane Ike Resource Staging
The Ford Center - Beaumont
Post-Hurricane Ike Evacuations
Galveston
Post-Hurricane Ike
I-45 North of Galveston
Post-Hurricane Ike –Bolivar Peninsula
Post-Hurricane Ike –Bolivar Peninsula
Hurricane Rita - September 24, 2005
Landing Craft from USS Nassau – Post Ike
Galveston
Landing Craft from USS Nassau – Post Ike
Galveston
Rock House Fire – Davis Mountains, April 2011
Photo K.West ©
National Sheriff’s Association
Major Cities Chief’s Association
National Governors Association
Association of Air Medical
Services
Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Association Advocates for Emergency
Medical Services
Major County Sheriff’s Association
National Association of Counties Association of Public Safety
Communications Officials
National League of Cities
National Emergency Management
United States Conference of
Association
Mayors
Council of State Governments
National Organization of Black
Law Enforcement Executives
International Association of
Emergency Managers
Emergency Nurses Association
National Association of EMS
Physicians
National Association of
Emergency Medical Technicians
Police Executive Research Forum
National Association of State
EMS Officials
National Conference of State
Legislators
National Criminal Justice
Association
National EMS Management
Association
International Association of
Chiefs of Police
National Association of Police
Organizations
American Probation and Parole
Association
International Association of Fire
Chiefs
National Volunteer Fire Council
National Associations of
Regional Councils
International City/County
Managers Association
National Troopers Coalition
Texas Single Point of Contact (SPOC)
Deputy Assistant Director, Law
Enforcement Support Division
Public Safety Communications Service
Texas Department of Public Safety
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