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We are here today

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to do a demonstration of the POINTER
technology.

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It's a technology
that enables us to track people,

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particularly first responders,
inside buildings like this to help

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save lives
and do search and rescue more effectively.

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If you had a fire truck

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pull up to a house
and the firemen deployed off that truck

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and they went into the house,
other than radio communications

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the incident commander wouldn't
necessarily know where they are

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at any given time.

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What POINTER does is provide a visual
exactly

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where these firefighters are at all times
while they're in the house

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fighting the fire.

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So the exercise that we were able
to do here today ah is in this older

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turn of the century house,
which is a single-family dwelling

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and we actually initiated
a, a scenario of a downed firefighter.

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We were able to use that technology,
basically if we were blind,

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to help us up directionally
where that downed firefighter was.

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I think this would be
a real positive thing

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for the fire department and even probably
military and police as well.

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Any kind of public safety or,
and your first responders.

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We did a mock mayday scenario here
and I was at the command

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post at the board over there, and I ran it
and we had him out less than a minute.

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It's a huge game changer
because it elevates your safety factor.

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When you're in an environment with fire
and water and things that can collapse

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on you or fall out from underneath you,
a lot of things can happen to you.

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So time is of the essence.
If that happens,

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the incident commander knows
exactly where that firefighter is

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and you can send other firefighters
in to get him out.

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(fire burning) 

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