Talking about this
With a friend of mine from a European country, who's still in the emergency services (as I was, about five lives ago).
He was complaining about the fact that nowadays all the logistics and despatch stuff is to some extent or another "cloud-based", which relies on luxuries such as internet access or a functioning power grid, neither of which is a given in the event of a major issue.
Curiously, I understand the French system, while it kind of sucks day-to-day because it's so Spartan in some ways, is designed to be extremely resilient (much of the emergency response in France is either paramilitary in nature or down right military, as the gendarmerie and the Paris and Marseille fire battalions).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
