{"id":1540,"date":"2026-08-30T23:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T03:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saferbuildings.net\/home\/?page_id=1540"},"modified":"2026-08-31T00:07:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T04:07:32","slug":"who-cares","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saferbuildings.net\/home\/who-cares\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Cares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"sbc-migrated\">\n<div align=\"left\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/302118257\" width=\"100% webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\"\nmozallowfullscreen=\"true\"\nallowfullscreen=\"true\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!-- Do not display this at the moment\nwebkitallowfullscreen=\"true\"\nmozallowfullscreen=\"true\"\nallowfullscreen=\"true\"\n--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><em><span><span style=\"color: #EC1E24\">Play the above video<\/span> to learn about wireless dead zones and the danger they represent<\/span><\/em><\/strong><br \/><strong><em><span>to First Responders and the Public<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span><em>&#8220;There&#8217;s no longer an if, just a when, <br \/>when someone will get hurt&#8230;.&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"problemList\">\n<li>There are over <strong>6 million commercial buildings<\/strong> in the U.S<\/li>\n<li><strong>First Responders<\/strong> need to be able to talk inside, communicate to each other inside, and communicate outside<\/li>\n<li><strong>Building Occupants<\/strong> need to be able text and call 911 from inside those buildings and receive mass notifications wherever they may be inside the building&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Response Time is Critical:<\/strong> The FCC estimates that an improvement of one minute for 9-1-1 response time would save 10,000 lives in the US annually<\/li>\n<li><strong style=\"text-align: center\">A Survey of the International Association of Fire Chiefs reports that in a large percentage of buildings, critical communication <\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>can&#8217;t<\/strong><\/span><strong style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> happen<\/span>.&#8221;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>The <strong>Safer Buildings Coalition&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saferbuildings.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><span>is an independent, not for profit organization providing thought leadership and education focused on advancing policies, ideas, and technologies that ensure effective in-building communications capabilities for public safety personnel and the people they serve.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span>Won&#8217;t you Join us in the cause?&nbsp;<a title=\"\" href=\"\/membership\" target=\"_self\">CLICK HERE<\/a><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Play the above video to learn about wireless dead zones and the danger they representto First Responders and the Public &#8220;There&#8217;s no longer an if, just a when, when someone will get hurt&#8230;.&#8221; There are over 6 million commercial buildings in the U.S First Responders need to be able to talk inside, communicate to each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1540","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferbuildings.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferbuildings.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferbuildings.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferbuildings.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saferbuildings.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saferbuildings.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/saferbuildings.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1540\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saferbuildings.net\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}