Next week, at the 23rd annual 911 Oklahoma Public Safety Conference, two local residents are going to be recognized as heroes. Justin Beaver, communication systems manager for the City of Shawnee, is set to receive an award as 911 Technology Person of the Year and 13-year-old Braydon Self of Tecumseh has been designated Child Hero.
Pottawatomie County Emergency Management Director Don Lynch said ….
FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners voted Thursday afternoon to appoint Amanda Simoneau as interim director of the county Regional Communications Center, county Clerk Julie Magoon said Thursday afternoon ….
Two weeks ago I sent a FOIA request to Greene County requesting information related to the training/certification of County staff working in the Greene County Emergency Communications Center (ECC). I was not required to tell the County why I was making this request; however, in my request I shared, “…my concern is that the GCECC has not been minimally staffed at all times by trained dispatchers, something not shared with Greene County residents, leaving them without the service they deserve and putting first responders at risk due to lack of mandated training.”
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On July 4, 2018, San Juan County 911 received a report of a victim falling 40 feet down a rocky bluff on Obstruction Island and into the water. That call launched a prolonged and complex rescue that involved multiple agencies, presented numerous challenges, and recently led to the San Juan County Dispatch Team receiving the 2019 WA State Telecommunicator Team of the Year Award from the WA Chapters of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials and the National Emergency Number Association.
Sheriff Ron Krebs marvels at the difficulties faced, “This was at night in a remote location with limited….
A Transit Police dispatcher says he’s owed big time for getting fired after watching a TV account of the arraignment of a woman charged with climbing onto the base of the Statue of Liberty in a political protest and telling coworkers she “should go back to Africa,” – because he wasn’t being racist, but merely expressing his political opinions and that if anybody’s being racist, it’s the T for forcing his firing because he’s white.
Mark Hayes is suing both the MBTA and IXP Corp., which has…
