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FOXBOROUGH – Built in 1960 to transmit telephone and television signals nationwide, the High Rock site surrounded by conservation land is now home to a state-of-the art emergency communication center.
The large, long-vacant cement building in Foxborough was recently transformed into the new $8.7 million Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Emergency Communication Center (SEMRECC). The center provides emergency dispatching for the Southeastern Massachusetts Regional 911 District. The district, formed in 2017, includes Easton, Foxborough, Mansfield and Norton. The four towns created a regional district to improve service and cut costs.
State and local officials, police, firefighters and SEMRECC staff gathered April 16 to celebrate the center’s completion.
New regional dispatch center handles 911 calls for four towns
Wicked Local
FOXBOROUGH – Built in 1960 to transmit telephone and television signals nationwide, the High Rock site surrounded by conservation land is now home to a state-of-the art emergency communication center.
The large, long-vacant cement building in Foxborough was recently transformed into the new $8.7 million Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Emergency Communication Center (SEMRECC). The center provides emergency dispatching for the Southeastern Massachusetts Regional 911 District. The district, formed in 2017, includes Easton, Foxborough, Mansfield and Norton. The four towns created a regional district to improve service and cut costs.
State and local officials, police, firefighters and SEMRECC staff gathered April 16 to celebrate the center’s completion.
Grants from the state Executive Office of Public Safety and Security and the State 911 Department covered the cost to construct the regional dispatch center in a long vacant building at the High Rock conservation area in Foxboro as well as the center’s technology. The funding comes from surcharges on phone bills.
The building, with its own tower, sits on six acres surrounded by state forest. It was built in 1960 as part of AT&T Long Lines to transmit telephone and television signals nationwide. It also aided Department of Defense communications and was built to withstand a nuclear blast. High Rock’s AT&T facility closed in 2003 and it was sold to American Tower Company which used the tower, but left the building vacant.
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