VA, MD emergency crews carry new authorization IDs
Emergency Management Alert, January 2, 2007
VA, MD crews carry new authorization IDs
Counties in Virginia and Maryland are now carrying special first-responder authorization credentials, or FRACs, comprising digitized fingerprints, identity documents, a photograph, and essential job information. The program, debuting in the area near Washington D.C., is the first in the country to establish such special credentials for police, fire, and rescue workers.
The program was inspired by response management problems experienced on September 11, 2001, when rescue workers from multiple jurisdictions responded to the attack on the Pentagon. "They were coming in from the District of Columbia, Maryland and all of Northern Virginia," Debbie Powers, deputy coordinator of emergency management in Arlington, Virginia, where the Pentagon is located. Said Powers to the Richmond, VA, Times-Dispatch: "It made it really hard to manage the incident initially."
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