by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 11, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Karl Wilmes, Chief (ret)
I remember as a newly promoted Sergeant meeting with my shift of officers outside in the parking lot of a bar fight. The incident was all but over, and one of the officers called dispatch on the radio for some information on a suspect we were arresting. The portable radio did not work, and Officer Mike threw the radio across the parking lot and announced to the world, “this piece of s..t” never works”. I clearly remember the radio breaking into pieces as it splashed against the asphalt. I can remember thinking to myself how I was going to explain this to the Chief in the morning and thinking those brand new Sergeant stripes on my shirt were probably gone.
That was the golden ages of law enforcement, the eighties. Today, we all have smart phones. No different than in the dark ages of just a portable radio, when you are on the scene of an incident, or simply need to call home you want your phone to work. Who wants to hear, “can you hear me now”, in a snowstorm at 3:00 A.M. in the morning…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 10, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
VILNIUS, Lithuania, July 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Peplink and Assured Wireless have teamed together to create a FirstNet MegaRange™ solution that combines Peplink’s SpeedFusion technology with Assured Wireless’ High Power User Equipment (HPUE), allowing first responders to protect mission-critical applications, visualize and manage their wireless connections.
FirstNet is the only network where public safety can take advantage of the highest power class signaling available in the U.S. with FirstNet MegaRange™, the HPUE solution exclusively available on Band 14. HPUE boosts transmission power up to 6x over traditional LTE equipment, which vastly improves cellular coverage in remote regions, rural areas, maritime environments, and metropolitan areas where cellular signal penetration through buildings and underground structures can be challenging – helping first responders communicate inside and out…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
Each year, more than 350,000 heart attacks occur outside of hospitals. The American Heart Association says the chances of a person surviving a heart attack without medical attention are not good – only one in ten people survive.
The AHA has led efforts to expand CPR training for telecommunicators for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases. He lobbied the legislature to pass a new law that trains 911 call operators to recognize cardiac arrests, then guides passers-by, step-by-step, to administer chest-only CPR.
Emergency physician Dr Justin Northeim says many people don’t know how to administer CPR, so this training will reassure people and encourage them to take action…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
JOHNSTOWN –The Fulton County Emergency Management Office is proposing over $650,000 in capital projects for 2022 — projects involving upgrades for both the office and to the dispatch console.
Office Director Steven Santa Maria recently brought his proposed projects to the Board of Supervisors’ Public Safety Committee at the County Office Building. The committee voted to send the projects on the Capital Projects Committee for its review July 22.
Santa Maria recommended a capital project estimated to cost between $410,000 and $440,000. The project is to construct or renovate a building for the consolidated operation of the Emergency Management Office in one location. His main office is currently on Route 29…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
The Pueblo Fire Department’s average total response time increased last year to nearly 10 minutes, and the department leader said a growing service area and new dispatch system are the main reasons for the rise.
The total response time for all emergency calls — that is, the time from when the dispatcher picks up the phone to when the responders make it to the emergency — averaged 9 minutes, 53 seconds in 2020. That’s up from 9:29 in 2019 and 8:38 in 2018.
Their 2020 benchmark goal was 6:20.
“What’s really important is that the city is growing and there’s parts of the city that we can’t get to in the timeline we’d like to for 911 response. That was really critical,” said Fire Chief Barbara Huber…
