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Former FDNY commissioner: Mass notification would have helped during 9/11

December 11, 2013Amy Canfield

NORTHFORD, Conn.—It has been more than a decade since two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, changing the lives of Americans forever, and resulting in the deaths of 2,750 people. Could it happen again? Thanks to the evolution of situational awareness technology and mass notification systems, the mass casualties could be mitigated, Tom Von Essen said at a press conference at Honeywell Life Safety, based here. Von Essen was the commissioner of the New York Fire Department during...

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