BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Everyone knows that Public Safety Telecommunicators are the lifeline to not only our citizens, but to our first responders as well.
Well today, is a brand new day for our Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Telecommunicator team that dispatches both law enforcement and fire rescue, as today we moved into our new Unified Communication Center.
NORTHVILLE, Mich. (FOX 2) – Northville Township will be upgrading its emergency communications tech to better serve residents throughout the region.
State Rep. Debbie Dingell secured $963,000 in federal funds for Northville Township to upgrade its emergency communications technology.
Dispatchers are settling in at the new Johnson County Emergency Communications Center. A grand opening and ribbon cutting was held May 31 and dispatchers moved in the following Monday.
To provide that space to decompress, they created a garden area in the middle of the center where dispatchers can go out and relax a bit before the next call.
There is also an exercise room.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—While in-building coverage for cellular and public safety Land Mobile Radio (LMR) systems is a challenge across building use types, it is a particularly urgent one in schools. At last week’s Safer Buildings Coalition Tech and Policy Summit, the issues surrounding first responder communications in school buildings were the front-and-center focus, with Lori Alhadeff, co-founder of the Make Our Schools Safe organization, bringing the matter home by sharing the story of her daughter, Alyssa Alhadeff, who was killed during the 2018 shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Alhadeff and her husband have since been advocating for better school emergency communications through mandating the availability of silent panic buttons in schools, with a number of states adopting or considering “Alyssa’s Law.”
In the first year of a Ramsey County initiative aimed at better responding to mental health related 911 calls, the number of calls transferred to professionals trained in such crises, in place of dispatching traditional first responders, nearly doubled, according to data released on Tuesday.
