Land leases for three towers in Orwell, Smithfield and Wysox townships were approved by Bradford County Commissioners Thursday as part of an effort to improve emergency communications in areas where it has been lacking.
According to Public Safety and Planning Director Matt Williams, two other towers are currently in development in Troy Township and at Mt. Pisgah County Park, while officials look for additional sites in Ridgebury Township and the Camptown area.
“While we’re doing this, we’re building these towers heavy enough that we will be able to lease space on them to cell providers to enhance cell phone communications in more remote areas of our county which, again, has a public safety aspect,” Commissioner Chairman Daryl Miller said…
GEORGETOWN — Chief Donald C. Cudmore and the Georgetown Police Department announce the retirement of Communications Dispatcher Lucille Manning after more than three decades of dedicated service to the community.
Dispatcher Manning was hired in 1987 in the Georgetown Communications Center, which serves the Town’s 9-1-1 system for the Police and Fire Departments and assists in all communications for non-emergency Town departments.
Dispatcher Manning served as a member of the Domestic Violence Crisis Intervention Team for many years and is responsible for the Department’s Domestic Violence Program…
A first step in the process was the approval of a joint powers agreement which the Alamogordo City Commission discussed and approved at its regular meeting on June 22.
The joint powers agreement creates the Tularosa Basin Dispatch Authority which would operate the public safety answering point to serve as a combined dispatch center for the City of Alamogordo and Otero County…
AIKEN, S.C. (WRDW/WAGT) – Aiken County Sheriff Michael Hunt, Administrator Clay Killian, and others are all being sued in federal court. It’s the latest development in our I-Team investigation – Aiken County 911.
One year ago we brought you the story of Barbara Roberts. The Aiken County woman who suffered what her family calls a minor heart attack in 2019. But after documented failures from 911 dispatch to EMS Roberts later suffered a brain injury. She held on for two more years bed-ridden in a nursing home but died a few weeks ago in hospice care…
An overworked 911 caller failed to dispatch a Fort Worth police officer on a June 1 domestic call that ended in double murder and suicide, according to a news report.
Former 911 operator Kate Colley told KXAS-TV the stressed 911 dispatcher received a call from Holly Beverly, who told him her ex-husband was on her way to her apartment in western Fort. Worth to hurt him.
The operator did not send an officer because the suspect was not yet at the scene, Colley told the TV station…
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
