NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) – A resolution to approve a mutual aid agreement between Metro Nashville and the Fairfax County Department of Public Safety Communications (Virginia) is up for discussion during Tuesday night’s Metro Council meeting.
The resolution aims to approve the intergovernmental aid agreement between the two government bodies in the event of a major network disaster.
PATERSON — The building on Pennsylvania Avenue where the city is spending more than $10 million to create a new emergency communications center sits within a federal flood risk area, Mayor Andre Sayegh announced recently.
Sayegh said in a public notice issued on Jan. 22 that city officials would evaluate alternatives to putting the facility on the property designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency as being in a floodplain.
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that $55 million would be awarded to 57 counties and New York City to bolster the State’s emergency response and communications systems through two grants — a $45 million grant under the State Interoperable Communications Formula Grant Program and a $10 million grant under the Public Safety Answering Point Grant Program. Both grant programs fall under the Statewide Interoperable Communications Grant program, which provides reimbursement of funding to eligible counties in order to improve their emergency communication systems, and allocate funding to further enhance public safety call-taking and dispatching abilities. The combined $55 million is set to deliver upgrades to the State’s public safety answering points and communications system. Funding will assist counties as they buy new equipment, upgrade their technology and improve training, and will encourage the development of Next Generation 911 technologies.
At its foundation, a CAD system functions as the central command for emergency response operations, equipping dispatchers with essential tools to efficiently receive, assess, and allocate resources. Acting as a unified hub, it captures, organizes, and distributes vital incident data—such as location details, caller information, incident classification, and resource availability—ensuring a swift and coordinated response.
The average caller would never know, but dialing 911 during an emergency isn’t possible in several Missouri counties.
While the call will go through, in parts of southeast Missouri, the number is instead rerouted to a traditional 10-digit landline. But that won’t be the case for long.
