America's Emergency Network Conducts Successful Test in Florida's Annual Hurricane Exercise
MIAMI, FL -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 06/04/08 -- Brampton Crest International, Inc. (BCI) (OTCBB: BRCI), today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, America's Emergency Network, Inc. (AEN), conducted a successful test of its emergency communication system as part of Florida's annual hurricane exercise in which hundreds of emergency managers and support personnel participate. The Florida Hurricane Exercise is an annual event that gives state and the county governments an opportunity to test their plans and try out new systems to improve their ability to respond to disasters.
On Monday, June 2, 2008 Craig Fugate, Director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, led the opening briefing on "Hurricane Herb," the virtual hurricane created for the exercise. The briefing was streamed live on the custom AEN web page built for the state emergency center. On the same day in the afternoon, AEN was deployed again, this time to feed live news briefings from Putnam County and Jacksonville/Duval County in northeast Florida, counties designated to be in the path of "Hurricane Herb." The counties' emergency management and support personnel rehearsed their emergency procedures, including simulated news briefings. Those briefings were fed live to the state emergency operations center in Tallahassee, demonstrating how information will flow during a real hurricane emergency. The exercise will continue through Wednesday, June 4. On Wednesday, AEN will carry additional live briefings from the Florida emergency center and Putnam County. In addition, the town of Islamorada in the Florida Keys will also send its first briefing over America's Emergency Network. That news conference will be monitored in Tallahassee as well.
"This gives us a chance to stretch our system and find new and better ways to do things," said Director Craig Fugate. And he added, "The more information we have in real-time, the better our response can be." "When people evacuate their homes, they need a way to know what their local officials are saying about what happened back home and what their instructions are," said Bryan Norcross, President and CEO of AEN. Mr. Norcross also said,"Lives can be saved through good communications, and that's our ultimate goal."
About AEN: America's Emergency Network was designed by Bryan Norcross, the CBS network hurricane analyst, and Max Mayfield, the former Director of the National Hurricane Center. AEN's goal is to be sure that every emergency manager, whether from a large county or a small town, has an outlet to reach the public, the media, and other government officials. The satellite-based AEN system is designed to continue to work after a disaster when the power lines, phone lines, cell phone towers, and terrestrial internet systems are knocked out. About Brampton Crest: Brampton Crest International, Inc. is a publicly traded company which recently acquired America's Emergency Network, LLC (http://emergency.info). Brampton also owns and operates a wholly owned finance subsidiary engaged in making loans to the real estate, trade finance and asset-based industries. Certain statements in this press release that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements may be identified by the use of words such as "anticipate," "believe," "expect," "future," "may," "will," "would," "should," "plan," "projected," "intend," and similar expressions. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Brampton Crest International, Inc. (the Company) to be materially different from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. The Company's future operating results are dependent upon many factors, including but not limited to the Company's ability to: (i) obtain sufficient capital or a strategic business arrangement to fund its expansion plans; (ii) build the management and human resources and infrastructure necessary to support the growth of its business; (iii) competitive factors and developments beyond the Company's control; and (iv) other risk factors discussed in the Company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which are available for review at www.sec.gov under "Search for Company Filings." Contact: For further information: Bryan Norcross President & CEO, AEN (305) 722-4800
2008-06-04 07:04:04 0376915 MARKETWIRE
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