by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 31, 2020 | Comm Center News
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) -Following the explosion in Downtown Nashville on Christmas morning, some AT&T users in the South Central Kentucky area began experiencing service problems. This included 911 operators at the Bowling Green Police Department.
Three dispatchers were working at the BGPD communication center on Christmas Day, including supervisor Ashley Rimington, Scott McDonald and Samantha McDonald, who all worked quickly to ensure the public could still contact them for help…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 31, 2020 | Comm Center News
The emergency dispatch service for the Graham police and fire departments on New Year’s Eve is moving to Burlington.
Alamance County has two centers that dispatch responders when someone calls 911. Burlington has an emergency communications center at the Burlington Police Department that previously only dispatched police and fire department responders for the city. The other emergency communications center serves the rest of Alamance County…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 30, 2020 | Comm Center News, Opinions
For more than 40 years, Jeff Danker has worked to protect people. For the last 28 years, he has done much as the sheriff of Pottawattamie County.
During that time, he and his staff have worked diligently to make sure the county stayed current with the technological times. This includes applying for grants for new equipment and making sure his staff had the necessary, up-to-date training it needed to provide the best services to the community. In 2007, he and his department assumed command of the 9-1-1 Communications Center and oversaw the implementation of the countywide 800-megahertz public safety communications project…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 30, 2020 | Comm Center News
The City of Ferris has shifted their 911 dispatch service to Ellis County after three of their four dispatchers have been diagnosed with COVID-19. One of those to become ill, Mike Atwell, died earlier this month. “In a small community like this it impacts everybody when we lose somebody like…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 30, 2020 | Comm Center News
DELAWARE COUNTY, PA — Emergency responders in Delaware County will soon be better equipped to serve residents in need. Officials recently announced the county’s 911 system was awarded a grant that will help improve emergency services. In total, $1.5 million was awarded to the support the system through the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program…
