by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 13, 2019 | Comm Center News
WOOSTER — The Wooster Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol has announced the 2019 Trooper and Dispatcher of the Year.
Dispatcher Elza Lloyd was selected as the Wooster Post’s Dispatcher
of the Year. The selection was determined by his peers and officers from
both the Ashland and Wooster Posts. This is his fourth nomination while
at the Wooster Post.
Lloyd started at the Wooster Post in September 2011. He lives in Wayne County, where he resides with his wife and two daughters.
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 13, 2019 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Tracey Murdock, Senior Public Safety Advisor
FirstNet is here, but that doesn’t mean that our work is done. To ensure the network evolves with the needs of our nation’s first responders, the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) team is regularly engaging with public safety to learn how the network can best support their operations. One of our recent engagements allowed us to dive into the world of emergency management, where data is key to operational success.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 12, 2019 | Comm Center News
After a stroke victim was forced to call 911 multiple times when he couldn’t provide dispatchers with the address of his hotel, the OEMC is promising changes. NBC 5 Investigates’ Chris Coffey has the update. [VIDEO]
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 12, 2019 | Comm Center News
Three weeks after NBC 5 Chicago Investigates first exposed a controversial 911 call for help — in which a man was delayed in having dispatchers send an ambulance for nearly ten minutes — the City of Chicago now says “more should have been done,” to help him, and says it’s now making changes in its Office of Emergency Management and Communications as a direct result of NBC 5 Chicago’s investigation…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 12, 2019 | Comm Center News
NEW YORK (AP) – The Latest on the aftermath of a strong winter storm that hit the Northeast (all times local):
11:45 a.m. Police say the 16-year-old girl killed in a traffic accident during the snowstorm in New Hampshire was the daughter of a police department dispatcher.
Police say Ava Doris lost control of her car on a snowy Route 11A on Tuesday morning in Gilford and crashed into a tree. She was pronounced dead at a hospital.
Doris attended Gilford High School and played field hockey and lacrosse.
She was the daughter of dispatcher Tim Doris…
