ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Anchorage residents experiencing emergencies will be unable to call 911 and need to call 311 instead.
In a community alert, Anchorage police wrote that people will be unable to reach emergency dispatchers by calling 911, and will instead need to call the 311 number “due to an ACS Network outage based in the Lower 48.”
Making sure they’ve left no stone unturned, Randolph County Commissioners met with Linn County 911 Director Shelby Creed this month to discuss 911 emergency dispatch services.
The Randolph County Commission wants to patch all the holes in its emergency system using millions of dollars in federal COVID relief funds. The county has paid for consultants and has offered new equipment to the sheriff’s department, the Moberly police department, the county’s fire departments and the Randolph County ambulance district.
A day-old baby girl died earlier this month, after D.C. 911 dispatched emergency crews to the wrong address for a newborn in cardiac distress.
Safety advocate Dave Statter, on his Statter911 website, said the parents of the newborn woke up, on July 3, to find their daughter not breathing and called 911.
Palm Bay residents who call 911 seeking help during emergencies — think active shooters, sexual assaults, even drowning swimmers — are waiting an average of 2 minutes longer for police officers to respond than they did in 2020.
The thinly spread Palm Bay Police Department ranks 241st out of Florida’s 246 municipal police departments in number of sworn officers (1.31) per 1,000 residents, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement reports. That’s 161 officers serving a city of 122,765 people, according to 2021 statistics.
Iredell County Emergency Communications training coordinator Jody Sherrill was recognized recently by the Board of County Commissioners for being named the N.C. Association of Public Safety Communication Officials Trainer of the Year for 2022.
