ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The National Emergency Number Association praised President Biden for recognizing National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (NPSTW) in a letter from the White House.
(AP) – Law enforcement agencies in Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota and Texas reported temporary outages to 911 services before saying hours later that services had been restored. It was not immediately clear what caused the outages or whether they were related.
Updated April 17, 2024 at 6:04 PM ET
HONOLULU — As wildfires ripped across Maui last August, the head of the emergency management agency dragged his heels about returning to the island amid the unfolding crisis, while a broad communications breakdown left authorities in the dark and residents without emergency alerts, according to a report released Wednesday.
The soft gray light pouring into the windows of their upper floor control room, coupled with the calm, low voices of Porter County’s E911 dispatchers, belies the urgency of the accidents and medical emergencies the first class telecommunicators field on a recent rainy Friday afternoon before this, National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.
—Telecommunications specialists at the Natrona County Public Safety Communications Center handled over 29,600 calls 911 in 2023, according to the Casper Police Department.
“We call them the ‘first’ first responders,” CPD Information Officer Amber Freestone told Oil City News.
