CORVALLIS, Ore. – A lead dispatcher with the Corvallis 911 Comm-Center has added another Oregon award to her resume’.
It’s a statewide Dispatcher Life-Saving award to Heidi Ferguson.
In the words of Heidi Ferguson’s 911 boss, she knows what she’s doing. 28 years of experience and know-how paid off hugely this past March when Ferguson took a call from a woman who was trapped…
JASPER COUNTY, S.C. (WTOC) – Earlier this week it was confirmed Jasper County had a cyber attack on their countywide systems, including email and emergency response systems.
At that time, county officials said 911 and emergency dispatch services were not having any issues as a result of the cyberware attack. Now, that may not be the case.
Some Jasper county residents are worried their safety might be at risk. Three weeks. That was the last time the Hardeeville fire department got a call through their dispatch…
Fortuna Police are warning area residents of a phone scam alleging to be a call from the Social Security Administration.
The caller apparently is spoofing phone numbers, making it appear that the calls are legitimate, when they in fact are not, according to police.
Spoofing is when a legitimate number appears in the victim’s caller ID, but the originating call is not from who they claim it is from.
From reports that FPD has received, the individual calls the targeted victim claiming…
ROCK SPRING, Ga. — In an emergency situation when lives are on the line, seconds can make all the difference.
That’s why Walker County Schools recently invested state school safety funds to enhance its Incident Management System. The school system now is the first in Georgia to fully integrate dynamic mapping of each school, push-button intercom notifications and closed-circuit cameras with the county’s 911 dispatch center. In the event of a crisis on a school campus in Walker County, dispatchers will be…
A major step has been taken towards a more efficient emergency response service to north-central B.C.
At its monthly board meeting yesterday (Oct. 17), the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George (RDFFG) agreed to ‘moving forward’ on borrowing $3 million to improve the region’s 9-1-1 service, which is more than half of the project’s $5 million budget.
This comes in loom of the RDFFG’s completion of the Alternate Approval Process…
