I’m writing this as a local fire chief in mid-Missouri and representing NAEMT on the Public Safety Advisory Committee to the FirstNet Authority. Those two roles are not separate. What happens in Washington DC, directly affects what happens in a patient’s living room, in the cab of a fire engine, or in the middle of a multi-agency incident where nothing is clean and nothing is predictable.
SOURCE: NAEMT News
DATE: February 9, 2026
When a wildfire crosses county and state lines, or when a task force deploys under EMAC, communications either support coordination or slow everything down. FirstNet has materially improved that reality.
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