by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2022 | Comm Center News
It’s almost moving day for Pulaski County 911.
The 911 center and Emergency Operations Center (EOC) held a ribbon cutting and open house for its new facility Friday, welcoming the public to view its new space in the basement of the Hal Rogers Fire Training Center.
That “new space” was actually built originally with an eye on moving the 911 dispatch center there, Pulaski County Judge-Executive Steve Kelley and Pulaski Emergency Management/911 Director Aaron Ross said.
For one reason or another, that never happened…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2022 | Comm Center News
After more than four years of standing vacant, all city buildings at the Blossom Hill site are occupied, Brecksville officials announced.
Because there are rules about who can rent the buildings — lessees have to be 501(c)(3) nonprofits or municipal or governmental entities — Service Director Ron Weidig told council’s finance committee the city had been unable to find suitable tenants.
“We’ve taken people through over the years but never had anyone actually interested,” Weidig said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2022 | Comm Center News
A Wisconsin bill co-authored by Rep. Amy Loudenbeck, R-Clinton, will create a Geographical Information System (GIS) grant program to help counties with upgrades they need to deploy Next-Generation 911 (NG 911).
Assembly Bill 708/Senate Bill 673 assists counties with the costs of some of the prerequisites for NG-911, such as data preparation, data gathering, data creation, GIS staffing, and collection contracts and training. This is the type of GIS preparation that counties will need to accomplish to meet the technical requirements to deploy NG 911…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2022 | Comm Center News
Deschutes 911 is the latest industry impacted by a labor shortage.
“We have seven current openings, and at this moment we don’t have any applicants that made it through our initial screening process,” said Chris Perry, General Operations Manager for Deschutes County 911.
Though the shortage isn’t causing missed emergency calls yet, it has resulted in several dispatch employees working overtime, or skipping their holidays.
For a job requiring a sharp mind under pressure, working extra hours doesn’t help…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 19, 2022 | Comm Center News
FRANKFORT, Ky. (WTVQ) — The Kentucky State Police (KSP) announced Friday that eleven telecommunicators, representing six posts across the commonwealth, have graduated from the KSP Telecommunications Academy.
The graduates of Class 19 received 160 hours of instruction over four weeks. Major training areas include legal liability, limits of telecommunicator authority, telecommunicator’s role in public safety, interpersonal communications, customer service, combating stress, ethics and confidentiality, responder safety, basic fire dispatch, state emergency operation plans, criminal justice information systems, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, first aid training, emergency medical dispatch and special needs callers…
