PORT ANGELES — The Port Angeles City Council is asking for public input on the possible use of the Volunteer Practice Field for a Joint Public Safety Facility.
A special meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday is for the purpose of hearing comments about the possible 18th Street location of the facility that would house a Clallam County emergency operations center, the Peninsula Communications dispatch center — which is operated by the city — and perhaps a westside city fire station, according to City Manager Nathan West…
A couple of pranksters broke into our police station and stole all of the toilets in our bathrooms. A spokesperson for the City told reporters, “The police have nothing to go on.” April 1 is April Fool’s Day, and that was my poor attempt at an April Fool’s joke. Please forgive me.
From April 10 through April 16, we will celebrate National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. We are blessed to have one of the finest dispatch centers in the country. As many of you know, we are expanding our services to dispatch for the City of Coconut Creek beginning in October of this year…
WATERTOWN — Since 2012, a group of Jefferson County legislators and department officials have been working to upgrade the county’s public safety radio system.
Joseph D. Plummer, director of the county Office of Fire and Emergency Management, said the new radio system is a state-of-the-art, high-tech system that completely outpaces the system the county’s first responders have had to rely on since the 1970s…
LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Rave Mobile Safety has created a new safety app called Smart 911.
The app allows users to create a safety profile giving emergency services instant access to the user’s personal information. The 911 dispatchers then use this information to assist in emergency situations.
Jason French, State Director for Smart 911, tells us out of 66 million Smart 911 users nationwide, 200,000 of those users are in Arkansas.
Smart 911 was created in 2009 but Arkansas was also the first state to implement Smart 911 in all emergency call centers across the state in 2012…
EDINA, MN — The Edina Police Department put out a message late Wednesday night warning that some 911 calls may not get through.
The department said the Edina 911 Communications Center was “experiencing difficulties” with calls from T-Mobile/Sprint users and recommended they call the 10-digit, 24-hour dispatch line — 952-826-1600 — if they had an emergency.
The Edina 911 Communications Center was just one of many dispatch centers that experienced problems Wednesday into Thursday. Police departments and 911 centers throughout the Twin Cities and across the U.S. posted similar messages to the Edina 911 center’s…
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
