Kentucky

FirstNet Authority Senior Public Safety Advisor Gerald Risner and Senior Emergency Management Advisor Bruce Fitzgerald sit down with Woodford County, Kentucky Emergency Management Agency Director Drew Chandler to discuss the communication challenges emergency managers face in Kentucky and nationwide. Learn more about how teamwork between the FirstNet Authority and emergency managers nationwide helps solve daily problems and prepare communities for a variety of events planned and unplanned alike.

National Preparedness Month helps communities prepare for when disaster strikes. It also provides an opportunity to celebrate the work of emergency managers (EMs) and the role they play in disaster preparedness, response, and mitigation. In recognition of the month, Trevin Hunter of Louisville Metro Emergency Services in Kentucky talks about his work as an EM and shares his support for the emergency management community.

Pre-incident and event planning is one of the FirstNet Authority’s most popular and successful services in the Network Experience Engagement Program. The program is offered at no cost to help public safety agencies with pre-incident and event planning, post-incident and event reviews, and exercise planning. It is highly successful in supporting events, including the Super Bowl, collegiate basketball’s Final Four, and the Kentucky Derby.

FirstNet is supporting public safety officials by providing coverage with deployable communication assets as they respond to flooding across eastern Kentucky.

School buses in Hopkins County, Kentucky turned to FirstNet to replace their CB radios with an upgraded communication system.

From missing person searches to HAZMAT incidents and holiday celebrations, first responders in Kentucky, North Carolina, and Texas use drone technology to gather critical situational awareness during emergencies and planned events. With FirstNet, footage from the drones can be streamed seamlessly back to decision makers on the ground.

First responders in Kentucky are benefiting from FirstNet’s expanding coverage, boosted capacity, and new capabilities. FirstNet’s Band 14 infrastructure is bringing public safety agencies nationwide access to the network’s unique features and functions.

Kentucky’s first responders are got a major boost in their wireless communications with the addition of new, purpose-built FirstNet cell sites in 9 counties – Adair, Allen, Casey, Clay, Edmonson, Floyd, Laurel, Perry and Whitley – and more than 600 other network enhancements.

The FirstNet Authority’s Public Safety Advocacy team proactively reaches out to public safety to discuss FirstNet and elicit feedback and insight regarding their communication needs for public safety broadband and innovative technologies. In the East region, the team includes seven public safety advisors covering a geographically diverse region of 19 states.

Famous for the Kentucky Derby, sprawling farmlands, and the Bourbon Trail, Kentucky faces unique communications challenges, such as dealing with disasters, special events, vast rural areas, and ach

A new cell tower in Stamping Ground, Kentucky, is bringing first responders in Scott County enhanced coverage and capabilities through FirstNet.

Law enforcement and emergency personnel in Sadieville, Kentucky, joined FirstNet in 2019. With FirstNet, first responders have access to a reliable and secure network that allows them to connect and communicate, even during times of commercial network congestion.

Today, Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin made his decision to join the FirstNet network. This will make Kentucky one of the first states in the country to “opt in” to FirstNet and bring advanced technologies that will help first responders save lives and protect communities. FirstNet released the following statement on Gov. Bevin’s decision: