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…
Since the first full time fire department was established in Cincinnati in 1853, emergency responders have raced into unknown scenarios with limited advance information when the firehouse bell rings—until now.
Among the many advancements of next-generation 911 dispatch systems, Smart911, an app developed by Rave Mobile Systems, automatically displays resident profiles during an emergency—including details like medical or mental health notes, such as a child with autism, pets living in the residence or the specific location of a building’s electrical box—giving them a better understanding of what to expect before they arrive…
SPRINGFIELD — For most people, 911 is a series of numbers on the telephone. But in an out-of-the-way building in Effingham County is a team of people that serves as the first link to help in a crisis.
The Effingham County 911 Call Center is the nerve center of the county when it comes to handling emergencies and dispatching first responders to the scene. When the recent tornado devastated Bryan County, it was on the job, taking calls and alerting the Bryan County Call Center as well as first responders in the area…
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