Mississippi Business Journal » emergency operations http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 County fills positions http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/19/county-fills-positions/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=county-fills-positions http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/19/county-fills-positions/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:01:57 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=52641 Gayle Beard, director of the Carroll County Emergency Operations Center, has been named civil defense director. The county also hired Scott Montgomery to be fire coordinator and assistant civil defense director. Beard succeeds Bobby Grantham, who was not retained by the county as civil defense and emergency management coordinator.

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/02/19/county-fills-positions/feed/ 0 City gets grant to build new EOC headquarters http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/15/city-gets-grant-to-build-new-eoc-headquarters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=city-gets-grant-to-build-new-eoc-headquarters http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/15/city-gets-grant-to-build-new-eoc-headquarters/#comments Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:00:00 +0000 MBJ Staff http://msbusiness.com/?p=46056 OXFORD — The Oxford Emergency Management Agency has been awarded a $750,000 grant from FEMA to build a new Emergency Operations Center in Oxford. The project is estimated to take about 18 months to complete and should be finished in the summer of 2013. The grant was awarded through a competitive process based on how [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/15/city-gets-grant-to-build-new-eoc-headquarters/feed/ 0 NVision deploys NVTouch for NCS4 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/12/07/nvision-deploys-nvtouch-for-ncs4/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=nvision-deploys-nvtouch-for-ncs4 http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/12/07/nvision-deploys-nvtouch-for-ncs4/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:20:55 +0000 Wally Northway http://msbusiness.com/?p=34208 HANCOCK COUNTY — NVision Solutions Inc. has deployed its NVTouch Surface Computer to the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS4) for the training of sports security professionals. Earlier this year, NVision became a founding partner of NCS4, providing NVision’s Real-Time Emergency Action Coordination Technology (REACT) as part of NCS4’s SportEvac tool developed [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/12/07/nvision-deploys-nvtouch-for-ncs4/feed/ 0 MEMA adds Flickr to social-media toolkit http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/05/14/mema-adds-flickr-to-social-media-toolkit/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mema-adds-flickr-to-social-media-toolkit http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/05/14/mema-adds-flickr-to-social-media-toolkit/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 11:07:29 +0000 Wally Northway http://msbusiness.com/?p=23873 PEARL — The Mississippi Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) continues to find new ways to use social media to better inform and interact with the public. In addition to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, people may now visit Flickr, a free online photo sharing tool, to view images from recent disasters MEMA has responded to. Viewers will [...]

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