by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 3, 2022 | Comm Center News
Omega. Alpha. Bravo. Charlie. Delta. Echo.
Kenosha Fire Department is now utilizing these codes to classify medical service calls as a safety initiative as emergency units are dispatched.
Division Chief of EMS Nicholas Eschmann said whenever someone calls 911 for emergency medical services a dispatcher asks them a series of questions to determine the severity of the situation.
The levels are designed to help curb the use of lights and sirens on lower-level calls…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 1, 2022 | Comm Center News
Marion County’s 911 center experienced an hourlong outage after the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Day, while hundreds of calls poured in reporting celebratory gunshots.
“I have never seen anything even close to what happened last night,” said Michael Hubbs, director of the Marion County 911 Center, which as of Saturday is housed within the new Metropolitan Emergency Services Agency.
From 12:02 to 12:03 a.m., his center received 206 calls. In the first five minutes, there were more than 500.
That’s when the dispatch system went down, and stayed down through the hour. By 1 a.m., it started to slowly come back; by 1:45 a.m., the center was fully functional…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 1, 2022 | Comm Center News
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – “What3Words” uses a GPS tracking system that breaks down the world into 10 feet by 10 feet virtual squares.
What3Words is an app and website developed in the UK that’s trying to make it easier to find people in emergencies, in crowds, or in remote parts of the world. The site cut the world into 57 trillion 10′ x 10′ squares where instead of finding longitude and latitude numbers, they use three unique words…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 1, 2022 | Comm Center News
A language barrier can be difficult in any circumstances, but when first-responders and those they’re trying to help can’t understand one another, the hurdle can be life-threatening. Last week, the Smyth County Board of Supervisors took action to ease communication for everyone.
The challenge of communicating with those who speak languages other than English presents itself regularly on Interstate 81…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 1, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Bruce Fitzgerald, Senior Public Safety Advisor, First Responder Network Authority
FirstNet helps with the four phases of emergency management – preparedness(link is external), response(link is external), recovery, and mitigation. I’d like to dive deeper into how FirstNet helps with the recovery phase.
Communicating during the recovery phase
Every year, disasters put millions of Americans in danger and cost billions of dollars in property damage. After the threat of harm from a disaster has passed, the recovery phase starts. Recovery can take months or years to get a community back on its feet. It’s critical to quickly start damage assessments and applications for financial assistance following a disaster.
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