by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 20, 2019 | Comm Center News
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) – La Crosse County property taxpayers will
continue to save money next year. La Crosse County officials said the
2020 budget keeps taxes in check but provides the funding needed for
road repairs.
The county did need to borrow $5 million,
however, to meet the need for those upgrades. The board also approved
$150,000 for the La Crosse Center, as well as funds to continue
improving the emergency radio system. County Board Chair Tara Johnson
said this budget was a successful one.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 20, 2019 | Comm Center News
Brittani was a familiar voice in the KFGO Newsroom, but after 3 years, she put down one radio wave for the next. After a long 6-8 week interview process and 6 months of training, she is a Communications Operator at Red River Regional Dispatch.
In this podcast: Brittani talks about what the process to become an operator, the desire to seek out the profession, and some of the fallacies we all believe Read More
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 3, 2019 | Comm Center News
A Peoria man, Nicky McDonald, has been arrested for child
pornography. We are learning more about the case from a Freedom of
Information Request.
McDonald is a registered sex offender and police records show he used public WiFi to access porn sites.
According to police in early August, McDonald was seen sitting
outside of the Peoria Police Emergency Communications Center using their
public WiFi. Their initial investigation showed McDonald was looking up
porn sites on his phone using that WiFi.
After police got….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 3, 2019 | Comm Center News
(Editors note: 112 is their equivalent to 911. This Story is from India.)
BENGALURU: The dial 112 helpline which
was inaugurated with much fanfare by Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa, had
its lines choked on Thursday. The newly set up command centre in
Bengaluru has 60 answering points with two Primary Rate Interface
(PRI).
“The response was high until 6pm on
Friday and we received an average of 22,000 calls per hour from Jio
network alone. We received a good response but it was unprecedented,”
said ADGP (Communication, Logistics and Modernisation), R P Sharma.
The department will….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 3, 2019 | Comm Center News
(HELTONVILLE) – A coordinated effort between Lawrence County 9-1-1 dispatchers and Pleasant Run Fire Department helped an elderly man who was lost in the woods Saturday afternoon.
Around 1:16 p.m. Saturday, Lawrence County 9-1-1 dispatchers received
a call from a 72-year old male who got lost in the woods on McPike
Branch Road north of Heltonville.
“The 9-1-1 dispatchers used GPS coordinates from the 9-1-1 call and three firefighters using their GPS, as well as using a siren from the fire truck, helped firefighters locate him,” said Chad Hillenburg of Pleasant Run Fire Department.
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