{"id":72540,"date":"2015-11-30T20:08:11","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T12:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/lebanese-red-cross-equips-volunteers-with-globalstar-spot-gen3-safety-devices\/"},"modified":"2015-11-30T20:08:11","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T12:08:11","slug":"lebanese-red-cross-equips-volunteers-with-globalstar-spot-gen3-safety-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/lebanese-red-cross-equips-volunteers-with-globalstar-spot-gen3-safety-devices\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanese Red Cross Equips Volunteers with Globalstar Spot Gen3 Safety Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 11-30-2015] The <b>Lebanese Red Cross<\/b>, the sole provider of emergency medical services in Lebanon, is deploying 125 handheld Spot Gen3 safety devices from <b>Globalstar <\/b>subsidiary <b>Globalstar Europe Satellite Services <\/b>to enhance the safety of its workers.<\/p>\n<p>The humanitarian organization will be using Spot Gen3 to track the location of its volunteers and search and rescue teams as they respond to emergencies. Spot devices can be quickly set up to automatically report the user\u2019s location at regular intervals using a \u201ccheck-in\u201d button, which sends a prepared message to Lebanese Red Cross headquarters indicating that all is fine. Red Cross managers can also install the Spot app on their smartphones and tablets to read messages and see where each volunteer is located using <b>Google<\/b> Maps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur volunteers and staff are working in some of the most difficult environments across the country. With Spot Gen3 we will have the reassurance that our hard working team is safe and, if they are in life-threatening situations, they can press a single button and we can quickly respond and work with other emergency services to rescue them,\u201d said Rodney Eid, assistant director for crisis management&nbsp;at Red Cross Lebanon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 11-30-2015] The Lebanese Red Cross, the sole provider of emergency medical services in Lebanon, is deploying 125 handheld Spot Gen3 safety devices from Globalstar subsidiary Globalstar Europe Satellite Services to enhance the safety of its workers. The humanitarian organization will be using Spot Gen3 to track the location of its volunteers and search [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}