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The City of Moore's 911 Emergency
Operations Center is a state of the art
telecommunications facility which houses both
our public-safety dispatching and emergency
management operations.
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We moved into the current
facility in City Hall in April 1998. The
Center consists of a 650 sq. ft. 9-1-1
operations area, and a smaller room that
serves as an administrative office,
emergency operations area, and a
meeting/training area. In the operations
area we have three modular workstations
which are primarily used for 9-1-1
dispatching. The EOC has three
workstations which support emergency
management functions. |
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We operate a 3-position Motorola
Centracom II radio console, which controls our
Police primary, Police tactical, Fire primary,
and City Government radio channels. We also have
numerous stand-alone VHF, UHF, and 800 mhz
radios with which we can communicate on nearly
all frequencies used by public safety and
government agencies in central Oklahoma. The
City's tornado warning sirens have their primary
activation point in our Center, via one of the
radios and a pair of paging encoders. We also
have a pair of 2-meter/70-cm amateur radios
which support weather spotter operations.
Moore is part of the 9-1-1
Association of Central Oklahoma Governments,
which in conjunction with Oklahoma City operates
an enhanced 9-1-1 system metro-wide. We
currently have three 9-1-1 workstations,
numerous "regular" telephone lines, and direct
telephone lines to each of our Police Station,
all three Fire Stations, and the Midwest City
Ambulance dispatch center.
The facility is equipped with our
own LAN, which serves a dozen workstations and
display terminals. We also interface with
networks at City Hall and the Police Department,
and also with OLETS, the Oklahoma Law
Enforcement Telecommunications System. Our
entire facility is served by a large backup
power generator, which also can provide power to
the rest of City Hall. |
