by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 4, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Welcome to March 2021. If last month was any indication, this will be a very busy year for public-safety professionals, especially those providing communications to the public-safety community. I hope we will see Congress fund Next-Generation 9-1-1 (NG911), which is currently one of the public-safety community’ most critical needs. NG911 will convert standard voice 9-1-1 calls into broadband calls that will include text, videos, and images. While Emergency Command Centers (ECCs) will face some challenges in vetting and authenticating incoming requests for service, once that has been done, the pictures and even videos can be pushed out to first responders in the field…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 3, 2021 | Jobs
Benefits:
- Full Health Care Benefits: Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability options – some employee contribution required
- Flexible Spending and Dependent Spending Accounts
- Life Insurance
- Clothing and Equipment Allowance
- Paid Vacation Leave
- Paid Sick Leave
- Paid Personal Leave
- Paid Bereavement Leave
- Paid Injury Leave
- Paid Military Leave
- Paid Holidays…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 2, 2021 | Comm Center News
Mar. 2—”Union County 88-1, … radio check please.”
“88-1, you are 10-2.”
Union County Sheriff Mark Sheriff made the ceremonial first call and dispatch responded with the code for “loud and clear” on the county’s new $7.2 million emergency communications system during the Union County Board of Supervisors weekly meeting 9 a.m. Monday at the Union County Courthouse…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 2, 2021 | Comm Center News
What’s the news? Hunterdon County’s first responders are getting a major boost in their wireless communications thanks to the FirstNet network expansion currently underway by AT&T*. We’ve added a new, purpose-built cell site– located in Bethlehem Township around Charlestown Road. This new site is giving first responders on FirstNet – America’s public safety network – access to always-on, 24-hours-a-day priority and preemption across voice and data…
by AllThingsECC.com | Mar 2, 2021 | Comm Center News
For nearly 28 years, Deanna Wells, the IT CAD vendor manager at the Cowlitz County 911 call center, has heard about the need to move from their current location — below the flood plain — in the Kelso Hall of Justice basement.
On Monday, March 1, construction broke ground for the long-awaited project at 2790 Ocean Beach Highway on the east side of Lowe’s…
