The Ulster County Legislature this week approved a $3 million property purchase of a former apple orchard in the Town of New Paltz as the future site of a state-of-the-art emergency management and government operations center. The land is owned by Wildberry Lodge, LLC.
Will expand the county’s E-911 Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Center
The Commission adopts rules designed to ensure that 911 special facilities, including PSAPs, receive timely and actionable information about 911 service outages that potentially affect them
READ REPORT AND ORDER as well as Commissioners Statements HERE
Otero County officials broke ground on the Otero County Public Safety Answering Point Center Nov. 9 in Alamogordo.
The Center, also known as PSAP, will function as a hub for emergency calls for Otero County, the Village of Cloudcroft and the City of Alamogordo, providing 911 call coverage to the area.
A local 911 operator is being praised for keeping a family calm during a frightening home invasion.
Telecommunicator Jennifer Mealer has been answering emergency calls in Hamilton County for the past four years and says she loves her job.
Some experts worry that expanding access, without proper education, could increase the number of calls to an already burdened system.
By adding satellite SOS to its newest phones, Apple is taking what was a niche safety feature and offering it to millions of iPhone 14 owners. They can use it to reach emergency services in everything from natural disasters and wilderness adventures to smaller incidents that happen to be far away from cell towers. It has the potential to save lives, but also gives people power that emergency responders hope they use carefully.
