Known as One on One with 911, the opportunity provides an opportunity for members of the community to meet and speak with 911 911 operators. Interested parties are instructed in one call after another how they can save lives.
Light refreshments are also served.
A $ 1,000 recruitment bonus is paid to applicants who successfully complete their training and probationary period. The bonus is paid out as follows…
The new system with 1,800 radios for countywide public safety and public works employees should be fully operational by September, according to Project Manager Brian Zastoupil with the Red River Regional Dispatch Center.
City and rural firefighters, police and sheriff’s departments, ambulance crews, public works employees and others involved in public safety use the radios.
So I’m pretty sure we have akk “butt dialed” someone, somewhere, sometime. Maybe even many times. Usually no harm, no foul, right?
Now this brings to light a recent Facebook post from the Maine Department of Public Safety Communications department that has many people upset.
The issue is with 9-1-1 hang up calls and the domino effect of those calls. It appears this is mostly an Apple iPhone issue as Apple has recently added a feature that makes it easy to make an emergency call by simply holding two buttons together at the same time…
Local Sheriff’s offices are seeing an increase in accidental 911 calls. It’s creating a drain on resources.
So far this month, the Langlade County Emergency Dispatch has gotten more than 159 accidental 911 calls and more than 700 so far this year.
Langlade County Sheriff Mark Westen didn’t have the exact numbers of how big of an increase that was to past years.
“It was enough of an increase that the dispatch supervisor advised that there was concern,” said Westen…
