Other Specific Examples
 

Sweetwater County, an 11,000 square-mile district in Wyoming, plans to use three RadioSTAT units to get emergency messages "to the public who miss receiving information from other sources." States Sweetwater's coordinator of emergency management Judy Valentine:  "We will provide continued updated information using these systems; and, in addition, we will deploy them when we activate our mobile command post or CERT animal rescue, shelter or other volunteer teams. We also plan to use them for civic and public health events, disaster exercises and a multitude of other activities. We're fairly certain we will find more uses for them than [first] imagined possible." Sweetwater County funded their RadioSTAT purchase through an Emergency Management Performance Grant (EMPG) and County funds on a 50/50 split.

Los Angeles County has a roaming RadioSTAT portable station, deployable anywhere within this populous area on a moment's notice to inform motorists queuing at vaccine distribution points. Public health departments in seven states now have this capability with some counties operating as many as seven stations. Comments Allen County emergency preparedness director Brad Witte:  "We will use the RadioSTAT radio to provide the citizens of Allen County, Indiana, with public health information in conjunction with field clinics that we might need to set up in response to public health emergencies, such as the recent pandemic. These instructions will include directions to our field clinics, information on how to proceed through the clinics and what to expect once they arrive, as well as medical information about the public health emergency and where to obtain further information." Allen County used an H1N1 grant to fund purchase of their equipment.

Adjacent counties in West Virginia comprising Homeland Security Region 4 now employ eight independent RadioSTAT systems. Each station has a fixed antenna allowing it to operate at a specific site in each county and a portable FCC license so it can roam anywhere in West Virginia when requested, on an as-needed basis. States Marvin Hill of Randolph County Emergency Management: "We intend to use the product to provide emergency information to the public. During emergency and or disastrous situations we will provide information on the event and safety rules to follow to protect the lives and property of our residents and/or visitors. During non-life threatening events, [to inform and educate the public and develop an on-air presence] we will provide information on general conditions throughout the County [that might affect travel in the areas served]."