Helping first responders in rural and suburban communities save lives and property

Bring Your Call Responders Back When You Need Them

Extend the reach of your existing tone-out and radio system to call responders who work outside the dispatch area. Let your people call in to quickly catch up with all the radio traffic -- then they can decide to leave work at those times when a few more good people people can really make the difference.

Second Signal is making news all over the country. The idea of strengthening our volunteer and part time first responder capability hits home for many towns just like ours.

Do you think your community would benefit from Second Signal? We'll try to help you get Second Signal working for your department. Give us a call.

October 24 2007 - KTTC-TV News

A New Kind Of Call, Story by Jennifer Hoff

MANTORVILLE, MN -- In smaller communities, like Kasson and Mantorville, many on-call firefighters work out of town during the day.

Some can't get away from work or even hear a phone page when the alarm back home goes off. But Newscenter's Jennifer Hoff shows us there's new technology helping bring some of those firefighters back when they're really needed....

October 18 2007 -- Press Release

Second Signal Helps Small Town Firefighters Save Lives and Property

Using cutting edge technology, Second Signal is helping fire departments across the country better respond to daytime emergencies.

December 2006 - WCSH 6 TV News

New Technology Helping Save Lives in Cumberland

Following a terrific save at a home in Cumberland, local TV News channel WCSH 6 did a story on how Second Signal is helping the department respond faster and with more people.

December 21st 2006 -- Falmouth Forecaster

Software signals shift for firefighters; Volunteer develops automated notification system.

By Peter Smith (published: December 21, 2006)

CUMBERLAND – Fire Chief Dan Small was at the Maine Mall with his wife doing Christmas shopping when he got a fire call – or rather, a fire text message. He rounded up his kids, went out to his truck and called the station. Then he listened to the previous 10 minutes of radio traffic compressed into less than a minute. In short, there was no rush. A Yarmouth structure fire turned out to be a vehicle fire away from buildings, which had been brought under control. “It’s very convenient,” Small said. “Not to have to listen to the whole thing and just get to the punch line.”

December 15th 2006 -- Microsoft Case Study

In the spring and summer of 2006, Microsoft worked with the Cumberland Fire Department and Second Signal to produce a case study, documenting the use of Microsoft (among other) technologies used to provide a solution that could help save lives and property.