A Sandoval County dispatcher has seven monitors to watch last week. The dispatchers preferred not to have their faces in the paper. Gary Herron photo.
A sticker in a goodie bag says it all: “Heroes wear headsets.”
Those headset-wearing heroes are the men and women taking emergency calls and dispatching law enforcement, fire and/or emergency medical help to those callers…
When you call 911, it’s just not about 911 telecommunicators providing help over the phone, but often getting help to your location. EMD Ira Charfauros says the role of a dispatcher is to act as a support unit to firefighters and medics. Charfauros, who has been an Emergency Medical Dispatch for almost a year and a half, he remembers the first time he had to talk a frantic caller through CPR, when a man, who was just watching TV, suddenly collapsed to the ground…
Last week was National Public Safety Telecommunications Week, a time to annually reflect on and appreciate the people that are just as vital to the first responders community as the men and women who drive up to relieve our problems. Dispatchers are the calm voices on the other end of the phone from usually some of the worst moments in the callers’ lives. And those phone calls roll in sometimes constantly in a 12-hour shift. Dispatchers are key in making sure those calls turn into timely action by police, fire, EMS, and other frontliners…
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In the year since 22 people were killed during Canada’s deadliest mass shooting, Nova Scotia has had a turnabout from never using the national public-alerting system to now circulating urgent police warnings about “civil emergencies” more than all other Canadian jurisdictions combined.
Statistics released to The Globe and Mail show that officials in Nova Scotia have issued direct-to-cellphone alerts for nine police-related civil emergencies since late April, 2020, while seven other events elsewhere in Canada triggered such warnings…
AMERICAN FORK, Utah (KTVX) — A Utah 911 dispatcher helped a family deliver a baby over the phone Thursday.
It was baby number five for American Fork couple Jennifer and Graydon Clark. Baby Henry spent Friday eating and sleeping, one day after his dramatic and intense arrival into the world…
