 | In September 2002 NC NENA President signed a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with the North Carolina Emergency Management (NCEM)
for use of the Telecommunicator Emergency Response Taskforce.
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| NC NENA is recognized as the primary point of contact for any
requests made to NCEM for assistance to any PSAP in North Carolina.
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| Letters explaining the TERT program were sent to all affected city
and county managers in North Carolina.
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| NC NENA President commissioned an updated review / count of all
PSAP’s (to include information needed for database) An update from
a 1996 study.
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| Communications Centers around the state were notified of the the
creation of the taskforce.
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| NOTE: All PSAP’s are eligible to receive assistance from the
taskforce, regardless of their ability to deploy.
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| Individual PSAP information has been collected for the PSAP
database
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| A "Run-Card" style database was designed to determine the initial
Assisting PSAP’s for each communications center in NC.
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| A practice deployment was planned for early 2003.
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| First TERT Deployment to Lenoir County after West Pharmaceutical
Plant explosion in January 2003.
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| TERT Deployments to Tyrrell and Pasquotank Counties in September
2003 after Hurricane Isabelle.
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| TERT Deployment to Haywood County in September 2004 after
Hurricane Ivan.
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| TERT Deployment to Saint Tammany Parrish, Louisiana in September
2005 after Hurricane Katrina.
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| NENA announces a national TERT initiative in Greensboro, NC on
October 25, 2005. Will later become the National Joint TERT Initiative
(NJTI) |
