Mountrail County Sheriff’s Office 911 Dispatch Center is using new technology that can make a massive difference for residents in the county. The enhanced programs they are using is coming at no cost to the county while providing major updates to how emergency calls can be handled.
Mountrail County Sheriff’s Office 911 Dispatch became RapidSOS Ready in June of this year.
Carver, 53, Greenfield, however will still be around the community.
POCATELLO — Even after more than two decades on the job, Pocatello Police Department dispatcher Brian Smith is still experiencing situations for the first time.
Though he’s helped parents who call 911 remain calm while in labor en route to the hospital, he recently coached a couple through his first actual delivery. Just 30 minutes later, Smith provided lifesaving instructions to a moth er with an unconscious infant unable to breathe. With Smith’s help via phone, the mother revived her child.
The 911 emergency response system in the U.S. has been in use since 1968.
A University of Chicago initiative aims to modernize and strengthen the system – and they’ve just published a blueprint for how to do it.
The Aurora City Council will consider about a $1.34 million project to upgrade the facility where emergency calls are answered and dispatched in the city.
The city’s public safety answering point, and backup communications center, has not been updated since it was opened in January 2010, city officials said.
