by AllThingsECC.com | May 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A Central California adult school is taking action to offer a new pathway, for people thinking about making a career change. Emergency medical dispatcher student Myra Duran says she’s always had a passion for helping others
“I was very passionate about helping the community and I actually had envisioned going towards law enforcement, but this brought me to a different route,” said Duran. Myra is one of roughly a dozen students taking part in a six-week emergency medical dispatch course…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
GREAT FALLS — The Cascade County Sheriff’s Office announced on Tuesday that it now offers online crime reporting for non-emergent incidents.Cascade County Sheriff Jesse Slaughter says the system enables people to make reports from the safety and comfort of their home, and allows deputies to focus on the immediate needs of the community, remaining available to respond to urgent calls and spending their time investigating crimes of a more serious nature or patrolling to deter criminal activity altogether. Dispatchers will also be able to focus on priority and emergency calls…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
DOVER-FOXCROFT — A feasibility study for a Piscataquis County public safety radio system is nearing completion and should be presented to the Piscataquis County Commissioners in the near future.
Piscataquis County Emergency Management Agency Director Tom Capraro told the commissioners during a May 4 meeting that the previous week he, Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Todd Lyford and Dispatch Sgt. Gary Grant met again with Normand Bouchard of Communications Design Consulting Group of Barrington, New Hampshire…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 4, 2021 | Comm Center News
Dispatch Director Valerie Maynard said things have gone well since the transition.
The dispatch team moved from the John Day Police Department to the John Day Fire Hall, which provided more space and the opportunity to design their work arrangements to correlate with their duties…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 3, 2021 | Comm Center News
BILLINGS — A fault in a computer system was the reason why an emergency alert message planned to be broadcast to a one-block radius in the Billings Heights was instead sent to everyone in Yellowstone County Monday morning, said KC Williams, director of Yellowstone County Disaster and Emergency Services.Law enforcement officers reached out to the county emergency services department to send a message telling residents in a one-block area to shelter in place due to a hostage situation happening on the 300 block of Stillwater Lane. Instead of the one-block area, the entire county got the message: “Law enforcement issue. Please shelter in place until further notice”. It was sent out to county cell phones, televisions and radios at 8:15 a.m.“Obviously, it causes a lot of confusion. Obviously, that caused some people to not exactly know what to do and quite honestly it was a problem. I guess the good news is it’s better to notify too many people than two little, but unfortunately it went to the entire county and that was a problem with the system that we just identified today,” Williams said.
