The Emergency Management/Civil Preparedness Office has current technologies including two-way radios, fiber optic and cell telephones, public radio station 1570 AM, web-based computer systems, FIRST NET (US Department of Commerce) phones, geosynchronous satellite radio and emergency phone. 

The Emergency Management Mobile Telecommunications Van is a dispatch center on wheels. The Van’s core is its two way radios, computers and siren activation abilities. They can interface with the following:

• Any local town and city police departments, fire departments, emergency medical services and public works departments

• Glastonbury Dial-A-Ride Vans

• Glastonbury Board of Education School Busses

• Military and Coast Guard

• Connecticut Departments including Emergency Management and Homeland Security (DEMHS) and its various regional offices, Transportation (DOT), Environmental Protection (DEP).and Public Safety (State Police)

• Various federal government departments

• Family Radio Service  

• General Radio Service

• Amateur Radio  

• Citizens Radio

The Van can also communicate on the inter-agency networks: CSPERN, RAFS, 8CALL90 system, STOCS and Intercity. The Van provides complete inter-operability in emergencies and serves as a backup to the other town radio systems.

The telecommunications van can also activate the civil preparedness alert and attack sirens, fire sirens, and can communicate with key departmental personnel in town on multiple frequencies. In addition, the Telecommunications Van has a telephone/fax, land-line phones, wireless internet laptops, scanners and television, structured to be used in a command situation with support personal. 

The Emergency Management/civil Preparedness Department has on staff, licensed amateur radio operators. The department also has an amateur radio repeater, located at our headquarters, for the licensed amateur radio operators to use in conjunction with departmental operations and staff.