by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 6, 2022 | Comm Center News
A man in Sweden is alive today thanks to — in part — a drone. The 71-year-old had a heart attack while shoveling snow in December and was resuscitated by a nearby doctor after a drone flew in a defibrillator, Everdrone reported Tuesday.
Someone having a heart attack needs help within 10 minutes in order to survive. Everdrone’s Emergency Medical Aerial Delivery (EMADE) service is designed to deliver help as quickly as possible — it allows emergency dispatchers to send a drone carrying the device to a caller’s home, kickstarting the lifesaving process before the ambulance arrives at their home. In this particular patient’s case, it took three minutes for the services to deliver the defibrillator to his home. A bystander, who happened to be a doctor on the way to his job, used the AED on the patient after providing CPR…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 5, 2022 | Comm Center News
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – The Brown County Public Safety Committee voted Tuesday night to use $2.2 million from the American Rescue Plan Act, also known as ARPA, to construct a new, 300-foot 911 communications tower.
The budget item now goes before the Brown County Board of Supervisors for a final vote.
“There’s going to be some zoning and some conditional use permits and things like that that we’re going to have work through,” Brown County Public Safety Communications Director Cullen Peltier said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 5, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
President Joe Biden renominated Democrat Gigi Sohn to serve on the Federal Communications Commission, despite broad Republican opposition.
Sohn’s confirmation would secure a Democratic majority at the commission for the first time since Biden took office, allowing it to pursue policies such as restoring Obama-era net neutrality rules.
The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee didn’t advance the nomination during the last congressional session…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 5, 2022 | Comm Center News
HERTFORD — Perquimans County officials said this week that shared 911 operations with Gates County have gone smoothly and all calls are being answered on a timely basis.
Because of staffing shortages at the Gates County 911 center, Perquimans County’s 911 center is temporarily providing dispatching services in both Perquimans and the neighboring county.
The Gates 911 Dispatch Center has temporarily relocated to the 911 center in Perquimans and Gates telecommunicators began working there on Dec. 17…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 5, 2022 | Comm Center News
Moniteau County Emergency Dispatch responded to a 911 call out of Jefferson City on Monday morning during which text-to-911 was successfully used to help secure the scene, according to a news release from emergency dispatch director Kevin Wieberg.
According to the release, a caller’s daughter believed someone was attempting to gain entry into her residence after hearing footsteps and banging sounds in the house and had locked herself in a bedroom, afraid to make any noise. The call was routed to the Jefferson City Police Department and then transferred to Moniteau County Emergency Dispatch…
