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Tumwater council approves interlocal agreements with TCOM 9-1-1 for radio updates and station alerting gateway
Summary
The Tumwater City Council authorized the mayor to sign two interlocal agreements with TCOM 9-1-1 to allow local programming and hosted gateway services for the county emergency radio system and a station alerting gateway, intended to keep radios current and improve firefighter alerting and interoperability with neighboring counties.
The Tumwater City Council on July 15 authorized the mayor to sign two interlocal agreements with TCOM 9-1-1 to support subscriber radio programming and to host a station alerting gateway at city fire facilities.
Council members acted after a presentation by Chief Hurley of the Tumwater Fire Department, who said the countywide Thurston County Emergency Radio Network (TCERN) supports about 1,550 portable and mobile radios across agencies and that those radios require periodic software updates. Chief Hurley said TCOM plans to host about a dozen Wi‑Fi programming sites countywide so units can park and download updates; Tumwater’s fire…
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