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Non-English Speaking Tool
Firefighter Tim Jew developed the Non-English Speaking Tool (NEST) to help emergency personnel communicate with non-English speaking victims
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There are many recent immigrants living in Silicon Valley, and that means language barriers can often complicate the jobs of emergency workers. Santa Clara County Fire Department's new Non-English Speaking Tool (NEST) may be a solution to this problem. With the help of community members, Jew said, the fire department has translated key phrases into 13 different languages--Chinese, Farsi, Spanish, French, Tagalog, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, German, Polish, Armenian, Japanese and Korean.
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