The Big Picture Activu and Mitsubishi team up to help New Jersey emergency center create real-time situational awareness CASE STUDY It was the largest Atlantic hurricane in recorded history, with winds spanning an area of 1,100 miles and damages estimated at $68 billion. It killed at least 286 people in seven countries, from Jamaica to the Jersey Shore. While tropical storms like Hurricane Sandy are an ongoing challenge to emergency operations up and down the East Coast, they’re not the only ones. According to Scott Di Giralomo, the Director of the Department of Law and Public Safety for Morris County, New Jersey, communities must be prepared for major winter storms, fi res, criminal activities, even earthquakes, since the county rests on a large, if inactive seismic fault. Ter

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