Contingency response communication system designed to provide radio interoperability, streaming video, wireless internet, and VOIP phone; Devices for wireless radio transmission; Hardened units composed of microprocessors and integrated transmitters and receivers installed in the field at large scale mining, construction, and industrial sites to collect data from monitoring and control installations, to transmit the data central processing facilities, and to receive data transmissions directed to the installations; Mobile computing and operating platforms consisting of data transceivers, wireless networks and gateways for collection and management of data; Portable telecommunication instant messaging devices; Software programmable microprocessors; Telecommunications and data networking hardware, namely, devices for transporting and aggregating voice, data, and video communications across multiple network infrastructures and communications protocols; Wireless telephony apparatus; Wireless transceiver radio; Wireless transmitters and receivers