Lee County will spend just over $273,000 to purchase an emergency call system that could be quickly set up and operational if regular 911 call centers are taken out of commission by a natural or man-made disaster.
The City of Edmond’s Emergency Communications Center has taken additional steps to tackle missing children’s cases by completing a national missing kids readiness program.
Lamarre turns in headset for front office
After more than 25 years of answering emergency calls, veteran dispatcher Maureen “Micky” Lamarre has been promoted to Communications Center supervisor, a new position meant to improve communications and service from the Billerica Police.
A lawsuit claims a woman who was left on a porch with gunshot wounds for more than an hour would have lived if someone would have come to help her.
The family of N’ala Wallace is suing Saginaw County 9-1-1, claiming emergency responders didn’t go to the shooting scene because they weren’t notified that the woman had been shot.
The first of two new protocol systems for call-takers at Cincinnati’s 911 center are now in place. You may think call-takers have a script they follow or a standard set of questions, but, until now, that was only the case for medical emergency calls.
