by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 6, 2020 | Comm Center News
MAURY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — Maury County 911 takes 70,000 emergency calls a year. Telecommunicators are usually the first link in the first responder chain when citizens call for help.
That was the case this past Tuesday after a Maury County man was caught between two fighting dogs and suffered a serious arm injury with a reported compound fracture.
Veteran 911 telecommunicators Tina Hodge and Gloria Whitaker both handled the call that initially came in as a dog mauling…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 6, 2020 | Comm Center News
Victoria Police Chief Del Manak expressed concerns about an increasing trend in property crime and assaults, but that data is mixed spurring questions for Victoria council.
Manak presented VicPD’s second-quarter report to council on Sept. 3, using information gathered from April 1 to June 30. He noted an increase in property crime, along with a more than 100 per cent increase in robbery and extortion calls and an increase in calls regarding threats to personal safety under ‘emerging trends’…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 6, 2020 | Comm Center News
FARMINGTON — Two men were each issued a summons on a charge of criminal trespassing after climbing halfway up a 190-foot Franklin County public safety communications tower Thursday on Waugh Road on Mosher Hill, Police Chief Jack Peck Jr. said Friday.
Farmington police officer Ryan Rosie responded to a report of people on the communications tower at about 3:46 p.m. He charged Matthew Dyke, 28, of Farmington and Gabriel Lambert, 19, of Kingfield, Peck said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 5, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Jason Porter, Senior Vice President, FirstNet Program at AT&T
It has been a week since Hurricane Laura came ashore as a massive Category 4 storm. I was on the ground with our network teams in Louisiana and saw firsthand the terrible conditions left in her wake: trees down, houses destroyed, as well as knocking out power and water to hundreds of thousands. But it is commonly said that we are at our best when Mother Nature does her worst. And Hurricane Laura is just the latest example in a year that has included a nationwide pandemic, wildfires in the west, tornadoes in the east and even a derecho in the Midwest. READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 4, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Ebony Morgan drives her van through the streets of Eugene, Ore., until she reaches a man curled up on the sidewalk under the eaves of a building. As a crisis worker for the nonprofit CAHOOTS, she was alerted by an emergency dispatcher that the man needed a welfare check.
Unlike in most cities, police weren’t dispatched to respond to the call…
