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DHS: Fire Services Join Fusion Centers

Via UPI.

The Department of Homeland Security wants fire services represented in the growing number of state and local government intelligence fusion centers.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told a fire chiefs conference that the department’s Chief Intelligence Officer Charles Allen “is working to add fire-fighter personnel to state and local fusion centers.”

“Now some people might say, well, wait a second. Why do you want to put firefighters in an intelligence fusion center, which has intelligence officials and police officials?” Chertoff said last week at the International Association of Fire Chiefs conference in Washington.

He said that as firefighters were often first on the scene of an event that might be a terrorist attack, fire services had to be integrated into fusion centers to share whatever they learned.

posted by Fergie @ 10/30/2007 11:22:00 PM