FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

City of Oberlin, Ohio Selects SafeScene for Automatic Firefighter Accountability

ROCHESTER HILLS, Michigan – March 31, 2009 – Azure Wireless, the developer of SafeScene, the world’s only completely automatic accountability system for first responders announced that the City of Oberlin, Ohio has selected SafeScene to provide on-scene accountability to its firefighters.

SafeScene is a software application that utilizes RFID to detect the arrival of first responders at an emergency scene.  Replacing traditional, manual means of first responder accountability, SafeScene is the world’s only completely automatic accountability system that requires no manual actions.  By automating accountability, SafeScene improves accountability and incident response, improves safety with automatic visual and audible PAR timers, eliminates problems associated with lost, misplaced or destroyed accountability tags, assists with NIMS and NFPA compliance, improves incident review with comprehensive, time-stamped report logs of all on-scene activities and seamlessly interfaces with leading third party incident management systems.

“SafeScene will provide us with automatic accountability of our personnel and allow us to manage the incident more efficiently and safely and comply with key NFPA standards. SafeScene is easy to use and requires no setup at the incident.  With SafeScene we can eliminate the use of accountability tags and other manual, resource-intensive means of presence recognition and management of first responders, which allows us to focus on the incident scene.  We can manage the entire incident very thoroughly with SafeScene,” said Dennis Kirin, Fire Chief for the City of Oberlin.

Oberlin Fire Department’s primary responsibility is to the citizens of Oberlin, OH, with contracted fire protection to New Russia Township.  The total fire protection area is approximately 25 square miles with a population over 10,000.

About SafeScene
SafeScene, an RFID-based system for automatically tracking and locating personnel and equipment in real-time at emergency events, was developed by Azure Wireless, an information technology solutions provider that specializes in providing its clients and channel partners with innovative mobile computing, wireless networking and RFID solutions that produce productivity increases, efficiency gains and operating expense reductions through untethered connectivity.  Azure Wireless developed.  For more information, please visit www.safescene.us or www.azuresol.com.

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Contact Information
Scott Krakauer
1010 West Hamlin Road
Rochester Hills, MI  48309
Phone:    248-651-8299
Fax:         248-651-8303
Email:      skrakauer@safescene.us

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