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Emergency management highlights comms tower, drone use and event support; requests more grant‑finance staff hours
Summary
EMA described successful deployments of a mobile communications tower, Starlink links and drones at large public events and search operations, and asked commissioners to increase a newly created finance specialist position from 24 to 29 hours per week (potentially to 32) to handle growing grant and reporting burdens.
Penobscot County’s emergency management staff reported recent operational deployments using ARPA‑funded assets — including a mobile communications tower, Starlink satellite internet and drones — that supported a large canoe race, a university‑area annual event and exercise activity with local fire and search‑and‑rescue volunteers.
EMA staff said the mobile tower helped bridge radio coverage and interoperability gaps during the race and allowed the agency to test logging of radio traffic and coordination procedures “off the grid.”…
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