New Tulsa 911 Center

[tiawah466]

Tulsa Is Going To Break Ground On A New 911 Com Center Next Month. Wll Be In The Lansing Industrial Park Ii. This Is Near Emsa's Headquarters.

 

[peterjmag]

Where did you hear that? That's news to me. Do you know when this will occur? Why would they do that? I know they have moved out of 911 Civic Center in the past to do some work on the building etc a few years ago and I know they have a back up center somewhere else that is unspecified. Let us know what you find out.


P.J. Maguire

 

[car2back]

I heard too from an EMSA SSC that it will be located near EMSA corprate near PIne & Landsing. never heard a timeline on it though! cant wait to see it!

 

[CommShrek]

Where did you hear that? That's news to me. Do you know when this will occur? Why would they do that? I know they have moved out of 911 Civic Center in the past to do some work on the building etc a few years ago and I know they have a back up center somewhere else that is unspecified. Let us know what you find out.


P.J. Maguire

The backup center is very small and cramped. I'd hate to work out of it for very long. It was told to those of us that went there not to disclose it's location. I don't know that it's a big secret, but they don't want everyone knowing where it is.

 

[tiawah466]

I Also Justsaw An Article In The Tulsa World About It Tonight. When They Had Moved Out Several Years Ago, It Was For A Nasty Mold Problem I Think. I Kind Of Wonder What Sort Of New Radio Goodies This New Place Will Have?

 

[peterjmag]

I read the article and they talked about it in yesterday's skywarn orientation. It will be about a year before it is built. It sounded like it was already built earlier in this post and that's why I was confused. The EOC will stay where it is which makes no sense to me? Ohhh well...

P.J. Maguire

 

[okla-lawman]

This is old news. It was posted on here almost a year ago. It is due to security concerns due to the fact of its close proximity to other posiible targets such as the city builidng and the courthouse. I beleive the funds are coming from homeland security They will have a
new back up facility too. The are going to keep the current dispatch in place just close it down. Hmmm now that might be a good place to move the eoc....

 

[CommShrek]

TAEMA guy Mike McCool said yesterday at the Skywarn training (hmm..I guess more than one of us made it?) that the EOC was going to remain in the basement.

 

[polson]

I also heard McCool say that (I was there also). It will present a problem for TAEMA. If they were really worried about it, I would think they would push for a permanent position (one to three authorized people) to be located in the dispatch center to be able to run TAEMA inquiries around. Does anybody know if the Tulsa dispatchers monitor any of the TAEMA talk groups? My guess is probably not. If there is going to be no link other than the phone between TAEMA and dispatch, there could be real problems during a civil defense emergency.

McCool struck me as being a nervous person, especially when I asked him the question of what to monitor for nuclear events. He seemed even more intense when I went up to discuss his answer with him when we all broke after his discussion. Perhaps TAEMA, like the rest of the country, is no longer prepared to handle nuclear attacks or nuclear fallout situations and he didn't like addressing the situation.

Did anyone else hear him say that the NWS weather alert system is replacing the Emergency Broadcast System? Can anyone else confirm that? I haven't had a chance to research it yet. As far as NWS putting out a nuke alert, they have no SAME code for nuclear attack being immanent. The local NWS office does (last I knew) have phones for FEMA calls (I saw them on the TRO tour a couple of years ago).

Sorry if I got this too far off topic.

 

[peterjmag]

I was there also, Mike McCool did seem pretty nervous. I guess some of us never get over public speaking at least I know wouldn't. Iwas the one who asked about the 800 and I was hoping he would go into more detail but he didn't ohh well...

P.J. Maguire

 

[CommShrek]

Maybe the guy was nervous. But, whatever he was, it doesn't make raise my confidence in TAEMA being able to do the job that they would need to do. I don't think he had the answers to anyone's questions either. He had to hand the mike off to other people to answer even the most simple of questions.

Remember when someone asked him about the other communities in Tulsa county? Remember how he made a point of saying there were 9 or so other towns or cities emergency management agencies in Tulsa county that did their own thing independent of TAEMA? Gee..I wonder why?

Maybe I'm being too critical but still, I didn't get a good impression.

 

[polson]

Well, for lack of anything better to do, and because I don't like listening to HF hiss all night monitoring the FEMA freqs, I've set up the 396 to scan only the state EMA and TAEMA talk groups while setting WX priority on for sitting on my nightstand. I think I'll also add in the non-trunked statewide freqs as another system and monitor them too.

Yes, the impression I got was that the main proactive thing TAEMA does is to push weather radios (not a bad idea) and test the sirens, and the rest is reactively dealing with the post-disaster mess.

I guess it's a good thing I'm a preparedness nut case.