CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) — The Charlottesville-UVA-Albemarle Emergency Communications Center has made improvements for emergency responders to get into contact with people quicker.
Real-time video has joined 911 and text-to-911 for visitors and residents in the Charlottesville/Albemarle region.
Annette thanks 911 dispatcher Chris Cook for life-saving advice as he told her how to get her husband’s heart beating again. She said he also made sure to keep her calm and focused as she drove to work.
HOWARD COUNTY, MD – On July 23, dispatcher Trish Geiman took a call from a woman in Delaware who relayed that her son, a Howard County resident, had called her after finishing a 10k race and said he was having trouble breathing. The woman was unsure of her son’s location, or what race he had finished, and she was unable to get back in contact with him.
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – Law enforcement and other emergency responders will have better radio access in the Black Hills thanks to new radio tower coverage.
$2.4 million was allocated by the 2021 legislature for the purchase of new radio equipment…. and Pennington County spent $600,000 of those funds to find tower locations and oversee the construction of the new towers.
Bonnie Guzman, who joined the Hancock County 911 Center in 2007, was honored last week with cake and “It’s a Girl!” balloons from the Indiana Statewide 911 Board for calmly and confidently walking Hancock County sheriff’s deputy Richard VanOsdol through the process of delivering a baby on April 6.
