MURFREESBORO, TN (WSMV) – News4 is finding out how an app helped first responders find two teenage girls lost in a Midstate park. The app is called what3words. It gives every 10-foot square in the world a three word address.
“Three words and it’ll take you straight to where they are,” Battalion Chief Jamie Bigelow with the Murfreesboro Fire Rescue Department said.
Battalion Chief Bigelow said a call came in Saturday night about two teenage girls lost in Barfield Park. The teens spent an hour trying to get back to their car with Google Maps, but couldn’t…
The process of reconfiguring the old Baltimore Sun building on North Calvert Street is getting pricey.
Just 16 months ago, the city said that making improvements to the space, in order to relocate the Baltimore Police Department’s Central District staff, would cost $1.8 million.
Tomorrow, the Board of Estimates is scheduled to reimburse the owner $4.1 million for unspecified improvements to a building that, standing vacant for several years, recently began housing about 170 police officers as well as fire and emergency management units.
One scenario under consideration is to house the 911/311 communications center, police forensic lab and other agencies in the building.. an April 22, 2020 press conference.
Being prepared and ready to help in emergency situations is key to a successful E911 response effort—and local dispatchers have had opportunities to put new training to the test.
The Tennessee legislature passed a law last year requiring all staff at centers that answer 911 calls to receive three hours of online training in assisting CPR over the phone if necessary.
Additionally, Perry County E911 policy requires that dispatchers be CPR-certified by an in-person instructor…
While three newly elected Sumter County commissioners were fighting to push through a tax increase on new business, the county was already collecting millions of dollars more than expected in that area.
[Additionally], [t]he commission approved beginning the process of hiring 22 new employees to staff the county’s Emergency Communications Center. The commission on July 27 approved the county assuming control of operating the dispatch center for ambulance and fire services beginning Oct. 1 as its contract with American Medical Response ends. The county will begin hiring employees to start training as early as Sept. 7…
Law enforcement surrounded a residence north of Charlotte Jan. 15. An armed man had shot a Clinton County sheriff’s deputy and injured a woman in the house. Four separate law enforcement agencies manned one side of the property. All had radios; however, they could not communicate with each other because their systems were incompatible, Jackson County Sheriff Brent Kilburg told the Jackson County Supervisors last week.
That situation is repeating itself more frequently and has the Jackson County Board of Supervisors mulling an estimated $1.2 million emergency communications upgrade. It would be only the tip of the iceberg to enhance safety for all emergency personnel and the public.
Members of the county’s 911 Service Board impressed upon the supervisors the need for a new, upgraded communications system that would — eventually — allow Jackson County deputies, police, firefighters, emergency management, and more to speak with each other via one centralized system…
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.
