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Fri 05 May 2009New software will help emergency services to save lives, says developer
A VOLUNTEER in one of the Irish Coastguard’s cliff rescue teams has developed a software solution to help emergency rescue services make better decisions that might save lives. Robin Blandford estimates that there are 50,000 global rescue organisations that could benefit from his software, Decisions For Heroes, which launched this week.
What began as a project to gather data and better inform the work of his own rescue team in Howth turned into a commercial venture after Mr Blandford put an early version of the software on the web and invited rescue service groups to test it out.
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