San Antonio City Council approved a $9.6 million contract with Motorola to purchase radios for the San Antonio Fire Department.
More than 300 firefighters participated in field testing and the selection process to purchase 1,200 personnel radios for the San Antonio Fire Department.The San Antonio Report depends on reader donations to support our nonprofit newsroom.Help us raise $50,000 by midnight tonight.San Antonio City Council approved a three-year, $9.6-million contract Thursday with Motorola Solutions, Inc. to purchase more than 1,200 personnel radios for the San Antonio Fire Department.
public safety communications network utilized by the San Antonio Police Department, Bexar County, and CPS Energy. It was a collaborative agreement between the city, the county and CPS. Motorola radios are used by “most large fire departments across the country,” she added, including those in Austin, Houston, Dallas, Chicago and New York City.
“What the chief confirmed for us today was that they tested both [radios] with equal tests … that’s what we needed to hear,” Pelaez said.
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