by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 24, 2021 | Comm Center News
This year at the annual conference, the Tennessee Emergency Number Association (TENA) recognized the Wayne County E911 Center by presenting 911 Director Jimmy Turnbow and Sheriff Shane Fisher with the TENA “Dispatch Event of the Year” award which recognizes the hard work, professionalism and dedication a 911 center displays during a critical incident.
The TENA awards committee reviewed all incidents that were submitted to them, and after review, chose Wayne County to receive the award to recognize the lifesaving efforts displayed on a call that involved a young Wayne County boy in February of 2021…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 24, 2021 | Jobs
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The Communications Supervisor reports to the Police Chief or his or her designee. The Communications Supervisor is a working supervisor who is responsible for supervising and coordinating functions of the Communications Center including performing all functions of a Public Safety Dispatcher, employee supervision, evaluation, training, shift scheduling, and duty assignment to personnel. The Communications Supervisor ensures compliance with City of Kenai personnel rules and regulations and Standard Operating Procedures. The position is subject to call out 24 hours a day for emergencies and major incidents that impact Communications Center operations. This position is also responsible to carry out other assigned nonessential job functions as designated by the Police Chief…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
Duggan hired as new EMA director
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Those involved in upgrading the county’s public safety radio system agree that improvements are needed, but the question is how the near $5 million cost will be covered.
One option may be to put the project out to bond on the November 2022 ballot, as was discussed during a Piscataquis County Commissioners meeting on Sept. 21
“As you know we had the consultant come up and review our radio system and talk to the fire chiefs,” Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Todd Lyford told the commissioners, with representatives of the Brownville, Dover-Foxcroft, Milo and Monson fire departments in attendance…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
“911, what’s the location of your emergency?”
That’s the question Ryan Tunks could be heard asking Thursday from his work station on the second floor of the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Emergency Response Center. Eyes flitting between six different computer screens while radio chatter echoed around the room, he’s a shift supervisor and one of four dispatchers on duty Thursday morning fielding emergency, administrative and accidental 911 calls made by Kenai Peninsula residents that day.
The ERC building, tucked quietly behind the Soldotna Police Department near Safeway, responds to calls from all over the Kenai Peninsula Borough, including every 911 call made from a cellphone in the borough and every landline 911 call not made in Kenai, Homer or Seward…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 23, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Over the last two decades, the emergency-management community has recognized that natural disasters and other emergency situations don’t always follow county lines or town borders. Interagency collaboration is vital—mutual-aid agreements expand the capacity of first responders, for example, and data-sharing solutions can give local telecommunicators regionwide data at the click of a mouse button.
One such cloud-based advancement scheduled to soon be released by the New York-based emergency technology company RapidSOS, the Emergency Data Exchange, will enable real-time interoperability (the ability of computer or software systems to exchange information) through digital automation—even if different centers aren’t using the same programs or devices…
