by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 30, 2025 | Comm Center News
Meagan Sullivan’s original plan was to be a kindergarten teacher. The idea of teaching children intrigued her.
She lasted two months.
Sullivan, 34, is helping people in another way, working as an Erie County 911 telecommunicator. She sits behind a bank of eight large computer screens at the county’s 911 center in Summit Township, receiving emergency calls from the public, assessing each situation, and dispatching ambulances, firefighters or police to the scene if needed.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 30, 2025 | Comm Center News
The city of Toledo is currently in negotiations with the Willamette Valley Communications Center in Salem for the handling Toledo’s 911 emergency calls in the future.
The city has had its own 911 dispatch center for many years, but staffing shortages and limited funding have made it difficult to keep the center operational.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 22, 2025 | Comm Center News
“We’re here today to advocate for S.P.11 to try and provide funding for telecommunicators to be able to help them perform CPR over the phone if they aren’t certified, and to be able to recognize when it’s time to start CPR,” said Richmond Carson, who performed life-saving CPR in 2015.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 22, 2025 | Comm Center News
A Carroll County dispatcher was fired in November after the sheriff heard a phone call that took place just hours before Jackson Kradle was found dead July 28.
KWQC has obtained the termination letter showing Carroll County officials knew crimes were happening that night.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 21, 2025 | Comm Center News
In a moment of life or death, sometimes a 911 call can make all the difference between saving a life and shattering families.
For that reason, and many others, officials at the Sampson County 911 call center have begun to meet more modern standards of training and operation to improve what they believe is an already strong service agency.
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