U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo appointed 11 public safety, technology, and finance leaders to serve on the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) Board. Stephen Benjamin, mayor of Columbia, SC, was named the FirstNet Authority’s new board chair.
With the newly appointed members, including current Board member Karima Holmes, the FirstNet Board is fully staffed, with 12 non-permanent members selected by the Department of Commerce and three permanent seats occupied by the U.S. Attorney General, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget…
WATERTOWN — After 30 years, Guilfoyle Ambulance Services is giving up its emergency medical dispatch services, handing them over to Jefferson County.
The ambulance service, a private company that has provided emergency medical services in Jefferson County since 1973, has been handling most of the emergency medical dispatch requirements for the city and town of Watertown, the town of Brownville, and parts of Pamelia and Rutland since the early 1990s for free. Now, president and CEO Bruce G. Wright said it’s time for the company to give up that responsibility.
“We’ve had a successful run, but it’s time to hand it back to the county,” he said Tuesday…
The contract will help the city switch its first responders’ communication system from analog to digital technology and replace the old radios, officials said.
According to the city’s Department of Information Technology, radio systems must be compatible with regional partners, including San Diego County government, the port authority, military, local hospitals and universities…
The Public Safety Network (PSN) on the Central Coast has been expanded with the completion of a new site in Algewn Rd, Gosford.
The site is part of a state-wide publicly owned network of telecommunications towers that services the emergency services and other State Government agencies.
Parliamentary Secretary for the Central Coast and Member for Terrigal, Adam Crouch, said the new radio site, delivered by NSW Telco Authority, is vital to ongoing community safety in the region.
“These sites provide emergency service organisations with a single, integrated network on which to communicate,”
Crouch said…
TACOMA, WA — A plan nearly a decade in the making has come to fruition with the grand opening of South Sound 911’s new Public Safety Communications Center.
Technically, the center has been up and running since July, but it wasn’t until this Monday that South Sound 911 had an opportunity to christen the building with a ribbon cutting ceremony, featuring the South Sound’s Board of Directors, Executive Director Deborah Grady and Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards.
Back in 2012 voters approved a plan to consolidate five local 911 call centers into South Sound 911. With Monday’s ribbon cutting and flag raising ceremony, South Sound 911 says they’ve fulfilled its promise to those voters to provide a more efficient, safer network for Pierce County first responders…
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
