by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 13, 2023 | Comm Center News
San Francisco, August 12: The iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS via Satellite feature helped save a family in Maui (an island in Hawaii, US) that was caught in a wildfire spreading across the region. Michael Miraflor, a user on X (formerly Twitter) said that five people related to his brother’s girlfriend were caught in a vehicle in Maui after the wildfires surrounded them. There was no cell service available at their location, so they used Emergency SOS to communicate with first responders.
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 12, 2023 | Comm Center News
ORLANDO, Fla. — Law enforcement officers aren’t the only public servants working hard to keep Central Florida safe.
Orlando police Chief Eric Smith stopped by the Emergency Communications Center Friday night to thank dispatchers for their hard work taking countless calls daily.
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 12, 2023 | Comm Center News
The only female FDNY manager in the ongoing ageism lawsuit against Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh was cast at a disciplinary hearing last week as an “entitled” employee “who went rogue” and began firing off unprofessional emails to department heads.
But Carla Murphy, who for nearly three decades has managed FDNY Emergency Medical Service’s computer aided dispatch system, claims she’s a model staffer and was only hit with disciplinary charges after she questioned several dangerous moves made to the system that were authorized by Kavanagh and Deputy Commissioner JonPaul Augier.
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 11, 2023 | Comm Center News
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (WCAX) – Flood cleanup and recovery continues in Middlebury following last week’s deluge, and it has local officials working in close quarters.
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 11, 2023 | Comm Center News
ROCKLAND — Put public safety chiefs in a room together with a critical problem to solve, such as the demise of the county emergency dispatch center, and they won’t leave until a viable action plan is in place.
