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Bonney Lake public-safety update highlights FEMA-funded recruits, OneWeb satellite plan and alert-system vendor change
Summary
Council heard a public-safety briefing: East Pierce Fire has 13 recruits in academy (graduating in May) and three paramedics graduating from Tacoma, paid through a FEMA grant; city staff are installing OneWeb satellite connectivity at the Public Services Building (and plan similar capability at Public Safety) and have switched the Bonney Lake Alert vendor from CodeRED to Genesis.
Council Member Baldwin told the council on Feb. 10 that East Pierce Fire has 13 recruits who began the academy and are expected to graduate in May, and that three paramedics will graduate from the Tacoma program in mid-February; those training positions are paid through a FEMA grant.
Baldwin and staff described an emergency-communications upgrade: the city has installed a…
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