In the May 22 call, the dispatching center in Milan had transferred the caller to the dispatching center in Davenport.
“Ma’m, I can’t hear you at all,” the Scott Emergency Communications Center, SECC, dispatcher told the caller.
The ongoing conversation to consolidate emergency dispatch services in Lincoln County continued last week with three public meetings.
Troy, Libby and Eureka each hosted what the county commissioners termed “conversations.”
The issue been a major topic in the county for many years, but the commissioners said changes in technology and increasing costs are reasons why consolidation is needed.
IONIA — Ionia County Central Dispatch is warning the public of a scam involving a shirt sale.
Ionia County residents, as well as residents from other counties around the state, are receiving messages that claim to be from Ionia County Central Dispatch, or other dispatch centers or public safety agencies. Ionia County Central Dispatch issued a press release Monday, June 20.
A new deadline is looming for Fayette County it its efforsts to upgrade the radio and paging systems used by law enforcement, emergency services and fire departments as well as county road and conservation employees.
Motorola plans to increase prices in the new fiscal year, which begins July 1, the County Board of Supervisors learned Monday morning.
When someone calls 9-1-1, seconds matter. That’s why the first question a 9-1-1 dispatcher asks is, “What is the address of the emergency?”
A decade ago, if someone called and didn’t know their location, emergency call centers would send out police officers with their sirens on and tell the caller, “Tell us when you can hear the siren.”
