by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 17, 2019 | Articles, Comm Center News
Brian Hobson, Director, Enterprise Strategy Division, First Responder Network Authority
From natural disasters to critical incidents and everyday emergencies, first responders have experienced time and time again why communication is so crucial to their operations. Since its creation, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) has worked with first responders to understand what they need in a network and what technologies can support and enhance those efforts. The FirstNet Authority is committed to exploring and advancing future technologies and has supported several innovation contests encouraging entrepreneurs, researchers, and public safety professionals to come up with solutions that help emergency responders. For these contests, the FirstNet Authority has joined forces with other agencies with strengths in grants, coding, and technology to promote innovation for public safety technologies.
For example, the FirstNet Authority has partnered with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on several initiatives.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 16, 2019 | Comm Center News
SOMERSET, NJ – A quick-thinking 4-year-old local girl may have saved her mother’s life, according to police.
Isla Glaser called 9-1-1 at approximately 7:54 am on Dec. 6 and spoke with Julie Kozo and Olivia Klein, Franklin Township Police department dispatchers, according to a news release.
“Isla was able to provide all the necessary information to Kozo and Klein to get help to the house fast,” FTPD Lt. Phil Rizzo said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 16, 2019 | Comm Center News
OLIVE TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — An internal investigation found that an incorrect classification of a 911 call was part of the “perfect storm” that delayed police response to a Spring Lake Township home where a father was killed.
The Ottawa County dispatcher who took the initial Dec. 1 call from Kenneth Boone, 25, coded it as “Priority 2 Mental-Health Related.”
Boone, who was arguing with his father, had requested police…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 16, 2019 | Comm Center News
The Boone Country Commission has created a new position — emergency communication center director — according to a news release sent Monday.
The position merges two former positions, directors of emergency management and joint communications. The creation of this position was approved Nov. 21 during a regular biweekly Commission meeting.
Current Director of Joint Communications Chad Martin has been selected for the new position…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 16, 2019 | Comm Center News
BOONE COUNTY – The Boone County Commission has a new leadership position, Director of Emergency Communications Center.
Chad Martin, current Director of Joint Communications will take the role. The job merges two former leadership positions, Emergency Management Director and Martin’s current position of Joint Communications Director.
Matrin has has been filling the role of Interim Director of Emergency Management as well as his own position…
