PADUCAH- Millions of dollars of improvements are needed to get the Paducah-McCracken County 911 Center up to standard. Members of the joint city-county 911 Oversight Committee had a very candid conversation during their meeting on Monday about what would happen if the system were to fail.
The center is imperative to keeping the public safe. Paducah Fire Department Chief Steve Kyle informed the board, if the current Windows XP system used in the center goes down the impact would be huge…
Minneapolis 911 dispatchers and operators combined to log more than 4,600 hours of overtime over a three-month period this year, according to records obtained by 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS.
Of the 50 Minneapolis Emergency Communications Center employees listed, 16 individually logged more than 100 hours of overtime over the months of February, March and April. One has put in 380 hours, another 265 hours and a third 245 hours of overtime…
File Photo – Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District | Photo: Tyler Tobolt / Lake and McHenry County Scanner
A 911 dispatcher will be honored Wednesday for helping parents who called 911 with delivering their newborn baby until paramedics arrived in Algonquin.
Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Fire Protection District Deputy Chief John Knebl said that Southeast Emergency Communications (SEECOM) Telecommunicator Jodi Kaalaas will be honored at Wednesday evening’s Fire Trustee meeting.
Kaalaas calmly provided emergency medical instructions to the Algonquin parents over the phone when they called 911 from a husband stating his wife was in labor…
NEW HAVEN — Mayor Justin Elicker named Joseph F. Vitale Jr., a 30-year veteran of the Yale University Police Department, to be the new director of public safety communications, a month-and-a-half after naming his predecessor, Kevin Stratton, to the position.
As director of public safety communications, Vitale will oversee all aspects of New Haven’s Emergency 9-1-1 Call Center, also known as the city’s Public Safety Answering Point, or PSAP. PSAP receives all 911 calls and dispatches the appropriate emergency response services, including police, fire and ambulance responses.
Florida’s efforts to transition its Statewide Law-Enforcement Radio System (SLERS) from legacy EDACS to P25 technology that is augmented by FirstNet broadband service is largely on schedule, with most public-safety users having P25 devices by July, according to an official with contractor L3Harris.
Keith Gaston, the SLERS account manager for L3Harris, said that all of the 11,000 hybrid devices—capable of EDACS and P25 operations on the LMR network, as well as working on the FirstNet public-safety LTE system—for state agencies have been delivered, and more than 4,000 of those have been distributed. Florida’s Department of Management Services (DMS) is charged with distributing all of these LMR-LTE devices to state agencies by the end of June…
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