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Podcast: Door County Pulse Podcast
Episode: The $28 M Upgrade to the County’s Emergency Communications System with Ashley DeGrave
Description: Communities across the county, from Brussels to Washington Island, use the same emergency communications system, owned and operated by the County of Door. The county is in the process of fully upgrading that system from analog to digital formats at a cost of nearly $28 million. This means eight additional towers added to the 13 currently operating, and new equipment needed for all fire departments (radios, pagers, etc). Ashley DeGrave, county technology services project manager, talks with Debra Fitzgerald about why the upgrade is being done, what it will achieve, and the challenges of getting the site locations nailed down for the...