An exemplary aspect relates an emergency response system and associated technologies. More specifically, an exemplary aspect relates to first responder and associated equipment access to one or more communications systems at, for example, an emergent event. Another exemplary aspect relates to an inference engine for first responders that assists with making inferences based on received information and/or more or more prior inference(s) and optionally automatically providing the inference and/or a recommendation(s) to one or more destinations, such as a communications device. Still another aspect relates to access point authentication and management for certain class(es) of personnel optionally based on location information.