HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) – Page County Emergency Communications Center has announced that CenturyLink/Lumen is experiencing issues that are affecting 911 lines in the county.
If you call 911, you may be re-routed to one of the Page County ECC administrative lines. Please press the option to get to the dispatch center…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Mecklenburg EMS has requested “ambulance strike teams” as it faces a more transmissible COVID-19 variant, an ongoing staffing shortage and an increase in service calls.
As of Monday, 33 Medic employees are in isolation due to COVID-19, the agency’s Deputy Director Jon Studnek said during a virtual news conference Monday. On Dec. 21, Medic had just three employees in isolation, he said…
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…
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…
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…
