Flathead Emergency Communications Center is hiring: 911 Dispatchers Dispatcher receives and dispatches emergency/ non-emergency calls for law enforcement, fire, and EMS. All applicants must be at least 18, pass a background check, and attend a job orientation session. No experience necessary. Top candidates will be interviewed and tested. Starting wage: $18.91. Position Open Until Filled For further job info or to apply visit the following website…
A Lacombe woman called 911 about a flaming vehicle on Hwy 2 and was twice put on hold by emergency dispatchers who seemed unfamiliar with the locations of Ponoka and Wetaskiwin.
Krysta Fornataro said the provincial government’s new centralized ambulance dispatch system “an absolute fail” after she spent three or four minutes on the 911 line without getting through to police, fire or ambulance.
After the “horrible experience,” she now worries about what could happen if an emergency ever befell her family…
ALBEMARLE COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) – 5 p.m. UPDATE: The city of Charlottesville reports that telephone carriers have restored services that were affecting calls in the Charlottesville-Albemarle area. The Emergency Communications Center’s 9-1-1 call volumes have returned to normal and there are no further reports of outages. Public safety stations are returning to normal operations.
Services in Greene and Fluvanna County are also now restored.
ORIGINAL ARTICLE:
Officials throughout central Virginia reported phone outages that affected 911 capabilities for part of the day Thursday, July 22.
Charlottesville, as well as the counties of Albemarle, Buckingham, Fluvanna and Greene were among those affected by the outage…
Finding staff continues to be a challenge for the Public Safety Communications Centre in Saint John.
The centre provides dispatching services for the Saint John Police Force and twenty-seven fire departments between Sussex and St. Stephen.
Covering sick time and vacation for current staff is a challenge along with hiring.
PSCC manager Lois Gorman said training new operators also brings challenges…
First and foremost, Tango Tango Push-To-Talk (PTT) is FirstNet-certified for both the Android operating system and iOS (Apple), not Android-only as stated in the list of vendors that have met FirstNet’s rigorous evaluation. I also neglected to note that Tango Tango, JPS VIA, and ESChat are the only FirstNet-certified PTT applications I am aware of that are fully interoperable with each other.
Tango Tango has been growing quickly as a result of working primarily with smaller departments that want interoperability with Land Mobile Radio (LMR) and PTT over FirstNet. Tango Tango also enables fire departments to send alert tones to FirstNet smartphones as well as normal alerts to pagers…
