by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 7, 2021 | Comm Center News
When Grant Davey’s mother fell on the back patio of her Maple Ridge home while watering her hanging baskets, she was seriously injured. The 86-year-old was in a lot of pain and could hardly move. However, she managed to drag herself up the two steps to get inside her home, where she reached her phone and called Davey’s brother for help.
In turn, on that Tuesday, June 29 at about 5:39 p.m., Davey’s brother called 9-1-1 and was told an ambulance was on its way. Then he called Davey. In a letter that Davey written to B.C. Premier John Horgan and Health Minister Adrian Dix, he described the unimaginable timeline of what happened next.
Her sons kept calling the 9-1-1 dispatch about once an hour to check on the ETA of an ambulance…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 7, 2021 | Comm Center News
New Public Safety Network (PSN) radio sites at The Entrance and Wadalba are a major boost in operational and mission critical communications coverage for emergency services.
The new radio infrastructure allows crews from Rural Fire Service, Police, Fire and Rescue, Ambulance and the State Emergency Service, to all communicate on a single, integrated network.
Next to Australia’s triple zero emergency hotline, the PSN is the most critical communications network in NSW.
The new local radio sites are two of 150 across the state, under the NSW Government’s Critical Communications Enhancement Program (CCEP) and delivered by NSW Telco Authority…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 7, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Michael Varney, Director of Stakeholder Collaboration, First Responder Network Authority
Natural disasters and other incidents, large or small, magnify the importance of secure, reliable communications. Network congestion, infrastructure damage, and incompatible radio networks are all problems that prevent responding teams from effectively communicating. In response to these challenges, Congress created the nationwide public safety broadband network, FirstNet, in 2012.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Upgrades cited in the first phase of a feasibility study for a Piscataquis County public safety radio system will cost $4,994,080. This does not include a potential move of the Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office dispatch center out of the cramped conditions inside the jail in Dover-Foxcroft and up Route 15 into the patrol and investigations division building in Guilford.
“This is to get the system up to a prime working system,” Piscataquis County Emergency Management Agency Director Tom Capraro told the county commissioners during a July 6 meeting. He said the price tag is in the $5 million to $6 million range that was estimated before the study commenced…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
A new type of text service has been launched by the Pueblo Police Department’s dispatching center that will send Puebloans text notifications of their emergency report’s status.
The service was implemented Thursday, July 1 and will allow officers to provide updates on their response times. It also allows citizens to submit feedback to public safety departments at the end of their initial response.
So far, that feedback has been helpful, according to Kim Jeffries, supervisor of the Pueblo Police Department’s dispatching center. She said this text service is separate from an existing service to text 911 for emergency help, which is a two-way service similar to calling the emergency number…
