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Rell Says DOT Cameras Can Be Used By Local Responders


by turfgrrl


July 21st, 2007 · 3 Comments

With the coastal city responders jacking up the pressure, Rell announced Friday that she was ok with allowing locals access to the DOT cameras. The Hour reports:

Municipal police and fire departments in New Haven and Fairfield Counties will be given real-time access to images generated by state traffic cameras along Interstate 95, Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced Friday.

Rell and state Department of Transportation officials met with local authorities who had been pushing for access to the images, and had threatened to opposed a $40 million state plan to replace the cameras in an upgrade.

“In any emergency, every minute is critical,” Rell said in a news release. “Images from the scene give first responders the information they need to plan next steps and take the quickest possible action.”

About 100 cameras provide state police and the DOT with views of traffic jams, accidents and other highway problems and emergencies.

source The Hour, Locals get access to DOT images AP, July 21, 2007

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3 Responses so far ↓ “Rell Says DOT Cameras Can Be Used By Local Responders”



  • 1 Broke Citizen // Jul 22, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    maybe it’s me but can’t they just go on the internet and look at the camera images? I do before I leave work to mae sure the coast is clear. Does the DOT have other hidden spy cameras that we don’t know about?

  • 2 gfaux // Jul 22, 2007 at 10:07 pm

    no but for blood and guts they turn the one closest to the scenes off. that way they save all of us the details. this is a good use of the cameras fire sta could know that it is a haz-mat site. or that gas or oil is leaking in to the habor.

  • 3 Mr Greenpeace // Jul 22, 2007 at 10:29 pm

    the state of Ct just got, well old news days old,,$12,999,879 from Homeland for emergency communication, one would think this would fall into the same realm for our responders,,beats using a pair of binoculars to see what the placard says downwind,,then again it seems we are just getting around to preparing for such things behind the rest of the country,

    now all they have to do is put a wind flag around some of those camera’s to see which way the cloud of toxic crap is blowing,,only one problem havn’t seen a damm thing that tells me the experts are thinking of that,,again perfect planning prevents piss poor planning, suppose the experts have never actually responded to a spill and are relying on fire chiefs to think of this, does this mean mindless rants like mine might suggest strategy?

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