“I was in Minneapolis when the bridge collapsed.
We have a large market share in that area including Hennepin
County Medical Center, which is the Trauma 1 hospital in
the area. We were advised that all of the 1st notifications
of the bridge collapse were done via pager. All of the hospitals
in the area issued a code orange alert, as well as using
their code orange group pagers. Cell phones were not working.
30,000 pages went out between 6 p.m. and midnight through
our system.”
Kathy Shank
Director, Sales West Region
American Messaging
Paging offers reliable communications
during Hurricane Katrina.
"FYI I am with an Urban Search and Rescue for FEMA
and with the cell and data service down and systems being
flooded. I just want you and your readers know that ReFLEX
is working fine and communications are flowing through the
units! We are allowing people to send e-mails to loved ones
to let them know they are alive and well. Again the critical
use of the ReFLEX in the all the disaster situations I have
been to (9/11 NYC, Ivan, Isabel and now Katrina!)"
Carter C Blumeyer
Communication Specialist
Boone County Fire / MO-TF1 (COMS
FLEXsuite
Protocol
The FLEXsuite of Enabling Protocols are a collection of
I/O, application, and application enabling protocols used
with the FLEX Family of protocols (FLEX and ReFLEX).
