by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 19, 2020 | Comm Center News
Rushing to catch up in a digital age, emergency services personnel in Greater Sudbury are poised to make up a great deal of ground in the next couple of years with the implementation of Next Generation 911, or NG911.
Paul Notman, manager of communications and information technology for the Greater Sudbury Police Service, and Craig Maki, manager of emergency communications for the police service, made a presentation to council on the progress of mandatory NG911 upgrades, which are expected to vastly improve communication with mobile devices, as well as location accuracy…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 19, 2020 | Comm Center News
NEW HAVEN — An eight-year veteran fire dispatcher for the city died suddenly at the age of 36, according to her obituary.
Angela Yoxall Hurlburt was born in New Haven on May 23, 1984. She died Monday at Yale New Haven Hospital. The cause of death was not immediately known.
She is survived by her husband and two young daughters…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 19, 2020 | Comm Center News
BONNERS FERRY — According to county records, Boundary County commissioners approved $30,000 in spending to acquire a remote dispatch system amid COVID-19 concerns.
A remote dispatch system’s approval occurred on Nov. 1 at a board of commissioners meeting due to recent infections to staff.
According to the report, “there are dispatchers out with COVID, and there is concern that if the current dispatch site needs to be closed down due to the virus, there needs to be a backup site”…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 18, 2020 | Comm Center News
CRAWFORD COUNTY, Pa. — With the dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases in the county over the past few days, the Crawford County Department of Public Safety is making temporary staff changes.
Emergency management, the coroner’s office, and mapping and administrative assistant staff all will work remotely starting Monday, Greg Beveridge, the office’s director, said Friday.
The move is designed to lessen potential COVID-19 exposure to the 911 dispatching staff at the building on Pine Street in Meadville, Beveridge said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 18, 2020 | Comm Center News
Assemblyman Steve Hawley weighed in on this situation, calling it “shameful” that the state is holding these funds that are “earmarked and due to our counties to be used for public safety locally.”
Hawley said he sent a letter to Gov. Cuomo on Oct. 20 asking him to release all funds for the PSAP Operations and SICG initiatives that were authorized through the 2019-20 fiscal year budget and “ensure that future authorizations are released in full in the budget year they are appropriated”…
