4phun
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Check out the new and revised Georgia-Navigator.com web site with over a hundred online traffic surveillance cameras.
http://www.georgia-navigator.com/maps
As just about everyone in the Atlanta Metro area knows we have surveillance cameras everywhere and many of them can be accessed via the Internet.
I just checked them to see a bad wreck on I-75 that I heard about on the PRO-96 scanning in the background. This was a crash of a pest control truck which flipped multiple times ejecting the driver who was found lying in a small pile of rat poison. His truck then caught on fire creating a hazardous material problem at the scene.
Cobb brought in Life Flight to remove him as he was the most critically injured of five victims.
Now what I have discovered is that while trying to figure out which camera had the best view of this scene, I discovered that GA DOT has greatly improved their Georgia Navigator Web interface. First when you pull up the maps you have to click on the option that you want cameras. Then to zero down to the camera you want there are several zoom locations in the map that explode the view in a certain segment of the highway. Then if you look closely at the zoomed map you will see that some fo the cameras are red or yellow highlighted. These are the actual cameras that are turned toward the scene. Also this changes as remote commands are sent to nearby cameras by DOT HQ to change their view so authorities can evaluate the problem from the command center.
Last when you click on a camera you get a small view but there is an option to get a more detailed large screen view which you can click on.
I could clearly see the Interstate was closed by rescue vehicles and the life flight helicopter sitting down. Later I could still make out the smoldering smoke from the wrecked truck as Cobb FD continued to work the scene. I could tell which of the eight lanes were opened as the passed a part of the traffic NB on I-75, just north of Windy Hill Road.
Check out he new GA Navigator web site and learn how to operate it before the next incident and you to can be right there with about the same benefits the remote incident center has. BTW I heard life flight talk to CCFD on foreground one before, during, and after landing. They got an update about the rat poison contaminating the victim as they were en-route to the hospital. Life Flight forgot which channel his radio was switched to and for about fifteen seconds I heard him trying to raise North Atlanta Hospital ER as he flew pedal to the metal across the top end.
This all happened very fast. He was on the scene in less than four minutes after being called by CCFD incident command and he was back in the air within a couple of minutes with the victim. The fire trucks advised Cobb 911 to warn him he may be needed as they pulled up to the scene, all that was needed was to verify the ejected victim was still alive and needing treatment.
Vic
http://www.georgia-navigator.com/maps
As just about everyone in the Atlanta Metro area knows we have surveillance cameras everywhere and many of them can be accessed via the Internet.
I just checked them to see a bad wreck on I-75 that I heard about on the PRO-96 scanning in the background. This was a crash of a pest control truck which flipped multiple times ejecting the driver who was found lying in a small pile of rat poison. His truck then caught on fire creating a hazardous material problem at the scene.
Cobb brought in Life Flight to remove him as he was the most critically injured of five victims.
Now what I have discovered is that while trying to figure out which camera had the best view of this scene, I discovered that GA DOT has greatly improved their Georgia Navigator Web interface. First when you pull up the maps you have to click on the option that you want cameras. Then to zero down to the camera you want there are several zoom locations in the map that explode the view in a certain segment of the highway. Then if you look closely at the zoomed map you will see that some fo the cameras are red or yellow highlighted. These are the actual cameras that are turned toward the scene. Also this changes as remote commands are sent to nearby cameras by DOT HQ to change their view so authorities can evaluate the problem from the command center.
Last when you click on a camera you get a small view but there is an option to get a more detailed large screen view which you can click on.
I could clearly see the Interstate was closed by rescue vehicles and the life flight helicopter sitting down. Later I could still make out the smoldering smoke from the wrecked truck as Cobb FD continued to work the scene. I could tell which of the eight lanes were opened as the passed a part of the traffic NB on I-75, just north of Windy Hill Road.
Check out he new GA Navigator web site and learn how to operate it before the next incident and you to can be right there with about the same benefits the remote incident center has. BTW I heard life flight talk to CCFD on foreground one before, during, and after landing. They got an update about the rat poison contaminating the victim as they were en-route to the hospital. Life Flight forgot which channel his radio was switched to and for about fifteen seconds I heard him trying to raise North Atlanta Hospital ER as he flew pedal to the metal across the top end.
This all happened very fast. He was on the scene in less than four minutes after being called by CCFD incident command and he was back in the air within a couple of minutes with the victim. The fire trucks advised Cobb 911 to warn him he may be needed as they pulled up to the scene, all that was needed was to verify the ejected victim was still alive and needing treatment.
Vic