by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) Six first responders from northwest Missouri are credited with saving a mother and her 18-month-old baby in mid April earlier this year.
The group was recognized at Missouri Highway Patrol Troop H Headquarters today.
The Missouri Association of Public Safety Communications honored four dispatchers and two Cameron police officers.
The six responded in the early morning hours of April 16, when a dispatcher in Harrison County received a call that a woman and her baby had been taken against their will…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
Many businesses on San Juan Island are struggling with being short-staffed, but the shortage of dispatchers makes for a dangerous situation.
Robin DeLazerda started her work as a dispatch officer on the island on Sept. 12, 2001 — the day after 9/11. She is currently working as a dispatch supervisor and also actively working as a dispatcher. When she sat in and observed dispatchers working, she knew that this was her calling, she said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 9, 2021 | Comm Center News
EBENSBURG — Cambria County’s Emergency Management Director will soon have new shoes to fill.
Art Martynuska, who has been in charge of emergency services in Cambria County for the past three years, was named the acting deputy director of 911 Thursday following the retirement of longtime director Robbin Melnyk.
Martynuska will hold both titles of emergency management and 911 director, and he is set to receive an additional $1,000 per month in compensation while he serves in the interim…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 9, 2021 | Comm Center News
WILBRAHAM — The town is now dispatching emergency services for Hampden and Wilbraham.
As of midnight on June 30, Hampden’s dispatch operation “went dark,” said Town Administrator Bob Markel. The transition of the Hampden operation to Wilbraham has been a gradual one as the future of emergency dispatch services has been debated multiple times over the past few years. This past year, the board began exploring its options more closely as costs to maintain its dispatch totaled nearly $450,000 per year…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 9, 2021 | Comm Center News
FORT SMITH — People in Sebastian County are receptive to a potential consolidation of the 911 system there that could result in financial savings, according to an organization looking into the idea.
Crystal Lawrence of the Florida-based Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials International provided the Sebastian County 911 Board with a general overview of what it learned this week as part of a feasibility study that will look at consolidating the county’s three call centers. Call centers handle individual emergency service units, including police, fire and ambulance.
County Judge David Hudson said after a 911 Board meeting on Tuesday that the objective of the study is to allow the county to have the most effective and efficient response possible for emergency services…
