PulsePoint Foundation, Critical Response Group Integration Provides Shared Incident Plans
The Critical Response Group (CRG) and the PulsePoint Foundation announced an integration. As a result, the nationwide catalog of CRG's Collaborative Response Graphics appears directly within PulsePoint Respond incident maps, providing responding staff with actionable intelligence for pre-incident planning and real-time response.
Situational awareness for multi-agency response in complex structures and during major incidents is provided by CRG's critical incident mapping. These extremely detailed standardized emergency response maps are now available to professional responders in over 5,500 PulsePoint-connected areas right within the same application that they depend on for vital information during incident response and coordination.
Response activities are supported nationwide by CRG's more than 70,000 mapping products in business buildings, healthcare facilities, schools, and other critical infrastructure areas.
Hydrants, highway cameras, live unit locations and real-time CAD narratives are just a few of the incident-relevant details that PulsePoint Respond is intended to give responding staff. By enhancing situational awareness, facilitating unified command and assisting all responders in operating more safely and effectively during complex crises, CRG response plans expand this capability.
"This integration delivers high-quality incident planning documents to our agency partners at no cost and without adding to their workload," said Richard Price, Founder and President, PulsePoint Foundation. "CRG's plans cover an impressive breadth of facilities nationwide, and we're excited that so many of our agencies will now have that actionable intelligence at their fingertips when it matters most."
"This integration is a natural extension of CRG's mission—ensuring that every responder arrives on scene with the situational awareness they need to act decisively," said Mike Rodgers, Chief Executive Officer, Critical Response Group. "We're proud to partner with PulsePoint to bring that capability to more than 5,500 communities across the nation."
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