Columbiana County 911 is at risk of losing almost 30% of its state funding.
The 911 system gets funding from the state from a wireless fee. For every wireless phone in the county they get .40 cents. That fee is set to drop to .25 cents in October.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation, in partnership with Resorts World, recognized 911 dispatchers Kacy Rafferty and Alicia Rivera Wednesday with the Good Ticket Award.
The two were recognized for remaining clam and focused while relaying important information to the officers responding during a high-speed chase across the Las Vegas Valley involving a murder suspect linked to three carjackings last month.
Two San Diego County sheriff’s deputies and an off-duty dispatcher are being credited with saving the life of an 11-year-old boy with autism who was found wandering in freeway traffic earlier this year.
The incident happened on March 9 after the child went missing from a Vons grocery store around 4:30 p.m. while shopping with his family. Over the course of about 45 minutes, he had wandered more than two miles and ended up near State Route 52 and Mast Boulevard, where he ran into traffic.
Parkland College’s Support for Workforce Training (SWFT) program is set to launch a new Telecommunicator 9-1-1 training this summer, offering local residents a pathway into high-demand emergency dispatcher careers. The two-week training, which begins June 2, will be held through Parkland’s Office of Workforce Development and is open to community members across the college’s District 505 service area.
The 911 dispatcher who took the call from the suspected firebomber of the Governor’s Residence within an hour of the attack should have escalated the call, but didn’t, Dauphin County officials admitted.
Chief Clerk Eric Hagarty said the county learned the 911 dispatcher “did not appropriately escalate the call in accordance with County policy,” though county officials declined to provide the policy in question.
