by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 12, 2021 | Comm Center News
Norristown Fire Chief Thomas O’Donnell addressed the municipality’s elected officials, staff members and area residents during a virtual session as he requested approvals to purchase a fire hoses and adapters as well as a backup public safety emergency communication system.
With respect to the emergency communications system, O’Donnell told council members that the agency does not have a backup system should an outage occur, and cited an inherent “risk of injury or death” for “public safety personnel” working during a “communications outage…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 12, 2021 | Comm Center News
NASHVILLE – The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) and the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board (TECB) are celebrating the second full week of April (April 11-17) as Public Safety Telecommunicators Week. This week honors the thousands of men and women who respond to emergency calls, dispatch emergency professionals and equipment and render life-saving assistance to Tennessee citizens…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 12, 2021 | Comm Center News
NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio — Ongoing discussions continue regarding North Olmsted taking over Fairview Park Police Department’s dispatch services and prisoner housing. Ultimately, both city councils are expected to approve the contracts
For North Olmsted Police Chief Bob Wagner, the notion of adding another community’s dispatching has been on his radar since the police department was renovated in 2015…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 12, 2021 | Comm Center News
The City of Roanoke will celebrate National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, April 11-17, to honor the men and women who serve as public safety communications officers in its E-911 Center. The City will recognize its dispatchers with various forms of appreciation throughout the entire week.
The Center’s dispatchers handle more than 275,000 emergency and non-emergency calls each year, dispatching calls to Roanoke Police, Fire and EMS personnel to meet the needs of the public in emergencies and on a routine basis…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 12, 2021 | Comm Center News
Amy Gilliland wasn’t even supposed to be working that day. She swapped shifts with another Marblehead dispatcher who needed the day off. Then came the 9-1-1 call she will never forget.
“I answer the call, but no one’s talking,” Gilliland remembers. “I look up the address and I send two officers down to Elm Street. All of a sudden I hear a voice in the background and I think, ‘Boy, that sounds familiar.’ It’s my sister’s boyfriend who has come to kill her. He has her on the floor with a sharp object to her neck…
