by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 13, 2020 | Comm Center News
SIDNEY – The Shelby County commissioners will continue to review and study possible options to improve the county’s radio communication system after hearing presentations and receiving feedback from first responders.
Shelby County emergency medical services chiefs, fire chiefs, police chiefs and village administrators heard a presentation Aug. 6 reviewing the findings of a recently completed study on the county’s radio communications systems. MCM Consulting Group, of State College, Pennsylvania, explained the status of the county’s current system, operational performance issues and future challenges…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 13, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Background: Since 2008, dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DA-CPR) has been running in Tehran, Iran. However, there are numerous cases that the emergency medical dispatchers (EMDs) did not provide DA-CPR or the bystander refused to perform CPR. The purpose of this study was to survey and identifypossible barriers to bystander resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 13, 2020 | Comm Center News
With summer wildfire season in full swing and more preemptive power shutoffs looming this fall, a report by the Mendocino County Grand Jury urges county officials to ensure its Emergency Communications System will perform as needed.
“The system is experiencing an ever-increasing failure rate causing loss of communication between emergency responders,” states the report from the 2019-2020 Mendocino County Civil Grand Jury titled “The Emergency Communication System in Mendocino County: Protecting Life, Health, Safety and Welfare…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 13, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Volusia Sheriff’s Office Communications Center has successfully earned national accreditation — for the first time ever.
This award, secured after months of review and site assessment by the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), means the Communications Center is on the path to become one of the best in the country.
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 13, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
he FCC has denied petitions by public safety and utility organizations to stay its decision to open up the entire 6 GHz band for unlicensed WiFi use pending judicial review.
In an order issued Thursday, from Ronald Repasi, acting chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology, the FCC said that neither the Edison Electric Institute (EEI) nor the Association of PublicSafety Communications Officials-International, Inc (APCO) had shown they were likely to win their case on the merits, had not shown their members would suffer irreparable harm absent a stay, had not shown that others would not be harmed by a stay, or that the stay was in the public interest, all of which boxes need to be checked to earn a stay…
