Texoma cities, counties and other community partners are taking the final steps toward preparing for upcoming statewide 9-1-1 updates this fall. Representatives with the Texoma Council of Governments and partner cities said the region should be ready later this year for changes aimed at modernizing and standardizing emergency response across Texas.
Last week, the city of Denison approved a budget amendment related to the purchase of new communications equipment and software for police and fire dispatch. This marks the final regional partner to make the upgrades ahead of changes to next-generation 9-1-1 technology…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
