WTOC, Savannah, Georgia, news, weather and sports | Homeland Security Grant Pays for Mobile Command Center
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Bryan County Emergency Services headquarters.
Emergency crews in Bryan County will soon have a new piece of equipment. A homeland security grant of $620,000 from the State of Georgia will pay for a mobile command center.
Emergency management director Jim Anderson says this would have come in handy over the summer when fire crews fought forest fires in Pembroke and northern Bryan County for two weeks.
"We operated off the hood of my Explorer," he told us. "If we'd had this mobile command, we would have had drawing boards, computer access. With the telescoping camera, we could have seen the scene from inside and talked inside on radios back and forth."
Anderson says they should have the command center sometime next year.
Reported by: Dal Cannady, dcannady@wtoc.com
