LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Calls for help come into the LVMPD Communications Center 24 hours a day seven days a week, and the men and women working inside the buildings walls have to coordinate the emergency response to save lives.
Orland Park, IL — Illinois Senator Michael Hastings joined officials of the Orland Fire Protection District on Thursday to announce the award of a $610,000 State Grant to enhance the district’s regional 911 emergency system and “save more lives.”
RALEIGH, N.C. — Thursday marks one week since a mass shooting clamed the lives of five people and injured two others in Raleigh’s Hedingham neighborhood.
WRAL News spoke with Raleigh-Wake Emergency Communications Center telecommunicator Tracy La Cascia, who took some of the first surge of calls on Oct. 13. She dispatched emergency medical services and police to help those in need.
The woman on the line had called 911. She had her dog but was otherwise alone.
And she was terrified.
“She said she woke up and her whole house was surrounded by flames and she had no way out,” KT McNulty remembered.
Residents of Austin, Texas, have been left waiting during emergency situations as a result of high staff vacancy rates. In the month of October, only 64.09% of 911 calls were answered within 15 seconds, well below the national standard of 90% in 15 seconds or less. The average hold time for more than 38,000 calls that have come in this month has been two-and-a-half minutes. All of this is happening as Austin’s crime rate remains high.
