Brian Kemp announces pay supplement for public safety workers (GA)

Brian Kemp announces pay supplement for public safety workers (GA)

by | Sep 28, 2021 | Comm Center News

Here is who is eligible for the money.

ATLANTA — Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced a $1,000 pay supplement for all eligible law enforcement officials and first responders across the state of Georgia on Monday.

“Our law enforcement officials and first responders, have been thrown challenge after challenge in the past year and a half. Civil unrest, a spike in violent crime, as well as the global pandemic,” Kemp said during the presser.

Some of the groups eligible include sworn law enforcement, criminal investigators, detectives, probation and parole officers, career firefighters, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, sheriffs, deputies, correctional officers, fish, and game wardens, and 911 communication officers and dispatchers…

QA Emergency Services’ year-long charge updating infrastructure (ID)

QA Emergency Services’ year-long charge updating infrastructure (ID)

by | Sep 28, 2021 | Comm Center News

CENTREVILLE – Twenty years after the department’s facility on Communications Drive was established, the reshaping of Queen Anne’s County’s Department of Emergency Services (QACDES) began, simply, with faulty air conditioning and a failing roof. Now, it includes statewide improvements to emergency communications and an even more pinpointed approach to finding and helping citizens.

Also, the roof was fixed.

“”For me, at 20 years old,” EMS Director Scott Haas said of the building, “that’s where the ball kind of started to get rolling on some things.” …

FirstNet posts resource guide for emergency managers

FirstNet posts resource guide for emergency managers

by | Sep 28, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News

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FirstNet posts resource guide for emergency managers

To help emergency responders get the most benefit from the nation’s dedicated nationwide wireless broadband network, FirstNet authorities have issued a guide detailing the network’s major features and how public-safety agencies can best leverage those assets in their communities.

The guide covers a number of topics related to emergency management communications, including features managers may use in their daily roles as well as those dedicated to incidents. It begins by explaining FirstNet’s suite of tech platforms and apps and also highlights functionalities that can be used for local mutual aid…

Greene County dispatch received 77 calls in eight minutes after sonic boom, nearly 100 total (MO)

Greene County dispatch received 77 calls in eight minutes after sonic boom, nearly 100 total (MO)

by | Sep 28, 2021 | Comm Center News

GREENE COUNTY, Mo. (KY3) – You may have heard or felt a starling boom on Monday morning, but it was not an explosion or an earthquake. It was a fighter jet breaking the sound barrier.

The Greene County Emergency Management Office confirmed a sonic boom happened around 11:40 a.m. from a Boeing test flight for the new F-15EX Strike Eagle. Many viewers as far as Branson said they felt the blast.

“After the sonic boom was heard and felt, in some cases, a lot of folks who didn’t know what it was called 911,” said Springfield-Greene County 911 Emergency Communications Department Director Kris Inman.

Inman saiddispatch received 77 calls within an eight minute time frame. He said around 100 total calls came in not long after the initial blast…

NDAA to include 9-1-1 dispatcher reclassification

NDAA to include 9-1-1 dispatcher reclassification

by | Sep 28, 2021 | Comm Center News

Legislation reclassifying 9-1-1 dispatchers from Office and Administrative Support to Protective Service Occupations was approved last week by the U.S. House of Representatives as an amendment in the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), according to lawmakers.

U.S. Reps. Norma J. Torres (D-CA) and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) reintroduced the bill, the 9-1-1 SAVES Act, in April.

“As a former 9-1-1 dispatcher, I know first-hand the challenges that our public safety dispatchers are faced with and the extraordinary work that they do to help save lives,” Torres said in a Sept. 24 statement. “Dispatchers are the first line of response during an emergency, and they deserve to be classified in a way that recognizes that their work is on par with the work of other public servants classified as first responders. That is why I am so pleased to announce that the 9-1-1 SAVES Act to reclassify them as emergency personnel passed the House as part of the FY22 NDAA…