An emergency service provider in West Des Moines said the statewide telecommunications outage Thursday that impacted internet and landline phones services was unavoidable — and they might not be able to prevent it from happening again.
CHARLESTON COUNTY, S.C. (WCBD) — The Charleston County Consolidated Emergency Communications Center is one step closer to grand funding to improve violence prevention.
The 911 Governing Board, which oversees the Barren-Metcalfe Emergency Communications Center, convened on Tuesday to discuss critical issues affecting the center’s operations. The meeting, held at the communications center in Glasgow, featured a review of the proposed 2024-25 budget and a contentious debate over the redrawing of the counties’ interlocal agreement.
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) – While firefighters, police officers, rescue squad and other first responders have buffers in between service calls, dispatchers can hang up the phone and be immediately greeted by the next call for service.
FRAMINGHAM — A proposal for a joint regional dispatch center that will handle 911 calls for Framingham and Natick has been approved by the Framingham City Council.
“For a number of years, Framingham has been talking about creating a new, joint-dispatch center,” Sisitsky said. “Currently, we have dual dispatch centers, operating out of the Route 9 fire station and police station. Both of those sites are functionally obsolete, require very expensive upgrades and there just isn’t enough room in those buildings for them to operate properly.”
