by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The year 2020 long will be remembered for being a turbulent year. No other in recent history spawned so many challenges for the fire service, and dispatch was far from immune. As field personnel coped with how to best respond during an epidemic, dispatchers dealt with the new reality of infection control in the communications center. The typical PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) is rife with the potential to spread germs: a confined space, which often has questionable ventilation, where telecommunicators literally sit elbow to elbow for 12 or more hours at a time, communally sharing devices, such as keyboards and chairs, and repeatedly touching common surfaces, including console surfaces, monitors, telephones and controls. In some smaller centers, headsets even might be passed from person to person during shift change…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The largest prize challenge in NIST’s history reached its culmination last month as contestants of the Tech to Protect Challenge, a software development prize competition birthed by NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research division (PSCR) with partners the First Responder Network Authority and FirstNet by AT&T, earned nearly $500K in funding for exhibiting progress toward commercialization after gaining initial funding during the May Demonstration Round contest…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
First responders in Patrick County received a major communications boost at the end of October when two new FirstNet cell sites went live in the county.
AT&T Public Affairs spokesperson Daniel Langan and AT&T Corporate Communications spokesperson Karen Twomey explained in a release that FirstNet is a nationwide wireless broadband network dedicated to public safety and eventually will operate entirely on its own spectrum, known as Band 14…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
“Who Ya Gonna Call?” is the seventh episode of the first season of the American comedy-drama television series “Psych”. The Hurricane season garners our attention in late summer and in winter it is the snow and ice. The news media reports the progress of hurricanes around the clock, generally showing reporters trying to stand upright with wind and rain pelting them as they report on the storms. One of the first thing the average individual thinks about is “stocking up on essentials” just in case we are flooded or homebound due to heavy snow. The news media documents the “stocking up” with video clips of shopping carts filled with water, toilet paper, candles, and batteries…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 1, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Have you ever been in an emergency and called 911? Most of you would have, and the person who responds to your call is a 911 dispatcher whose duty is to receive the calls and respond to an emergency. The 911 dispatcher is another career within the law enforcement agencies that act as a bridge to mitigate emergencies within the United States.
There are many tempting aspects of the job of 911 Dispatcher that has compelled many people to look for the ways of becoming a 911 dispatcher, if you are reading this article you might be one of them who wonder, how to become a dispatcher or how much do 911 dispatchers make?
