Brown County dispatchers answered 536 calls during snowy commute (WI)

BROWN COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) – Brown County emergency dispatchers received more than 500 calls Wednesday morning as drivers crashed and slid off roads during a snowy commute.

“It’s going to be a two-vehicle accident, head-on. Unknown injuries at this time. Unknown entrapment.”

“172 eastbound at Webster for a vehicle accident. It is a truck that is flipped over.”

“You have a red, full-sized pickup that spun out and struck the median at mile marker 170.”

We’re told dispatchers answered 536 calls…

Increased carbon monoxide poisoning during Public Safety Power Shutoffs (CA)

TEHACHAPI, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Adventist Health announced at least four Tehachapi-area residents have been hospitalized in the last two weeks after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning incurred after improperly heating their homes during ongoing Public Safety Power Shutoffs.

A pregnant woman was poisoned after heating her home with her oven, and another individual was found passed out in their home after starting up an emergency generator inside their… 

This Small Team of Dispatchers Saves Lives Via Satellite

When the message arrived from the Alaskan wilderness, it was simple, brief, and urgent: tipped raft. The two paddlers who sent it had just almost drowned, and their food and gear had disappeared downriver. But they had one thing going for them, a small, handheld emergency beacon they could use to share their location and ask for help. It sent a signal more than 3,000 miles south, to Montgomery, Texas, where…