by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 19, 2021 | Comm Center News
A longtime Cambria County 911 employee is retiring to embark on the next chapters of her life.
Robbin Melnyk, 56, retired as the county’s 911 coordinator and Department of Emergency Services deputy director earlier this month to focus more on her family and educating new dispatchers across the state.
Melnyk started her career in 1986 at the Mainline Police Dispatch Center in the basement of the county courthouse. She also worked part-time for the Richland Police Dispatch Center until 1992, when the county merged three centers, including the two she worked for, to create the county-wide dispatch center…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 19, 2021 | Comm Center News
The Coos Bay City Council voted unanimously to spend up to $159,000 to purchase new equipment for emergency dispatchers.
Police Chief Chris Chapanar said the equipment for the 9-1-1 dispatchers is desperately needed.
“The 9-1-1 dispatch center is currently using out-of-date equipment that was purchased over 15 years ago,” Chapanar told the council. “The equipment has not only become outdated, but obviously it’s technologically driven, and that has become outdated as well. It is no longer serviceable, and the components are no longer being manufactured..
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 18, 2021 | Comm Center News
BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. — Saratoga County officials today announced its Office of Emergency Services is hosting a contest with cash prizes for those who help locate automatic external defibrillators (AEDs) around the county.
The contest, in partnership with the EMS Council, is an effort to grow the county’s AED database.
Contestants are asked to locate and upload photos and information of AEDs around the county using the PulsePoint AED app. The contest runs from July 15 through Aug. 13. Cash prizes will be awarded to the five people who register the most AEDs located in Saratoga County and will be distributed as follows: $300 for first place; $200 for second place; $150 each for third, fourth and fifth place…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 18, 2021 | Comm Center News
BERNALILLO — Sandoval County Fire Chief Eric Masterson looks to improve and expand emergency communications for more remote sections of the county, including Jemez Springs, Cuba and Regina.
Masterson told the Sandoval County Commission during Thursday’s meeting at the county administration building that the county Emergency Management Office, part of the fire department, plans to utilize state funding to build the program and look at additional funding sources to expand it even more.
He said the department’s striving for those communication signals to be broadcasted with more clarity and less static. Masterson also told the board his department’s working to address the issue of what he called “dead space” in areas like Jemez Springs…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 18, 2021 | Comm Center News
ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. – Emergency calls are still coming in, but Roanoke County is seeing a shortage of emergency dispatchers.
There are two openings currently, but with six people still training, the team is feeling the pressure.
Training tends to last six to eight months before new employees are allowed to answer phone calls by themselves.
The last time the dispatch center was fully staffed was about six years ago…
