by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 23, 2019 | Comm Center News
Working in a 911 emergency communications center (ECC) is a high
stress environment and dispatchers are known to be supportive of each
other. However, there are also tendencies to develop cliques and it’s
not always easy for newcomers to be accepted on the team.
These team building strategies can help ECCs build stronger, more cohesive teams.
A Leader Goes The Way
Leadership and team building skills can be honed. In 5 Takeaways for PSAP Team Building from Coach Brian Billick, “personnel structure and chemistry are critical to successful teams.”
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by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 22, 2019 | Comm Center News
WHEELING, W. Va. (WTOV) — UPDATE: Emergency officials say the outage has been solved.
Residents in several West Virginia communities are without 911 service Saturday morning.
According
to emergency officials at the Ohio County 911 dispatch center, an
outage from their telecommunications supplier Frontier Communications is
causing issues for several counties throughout West Virginia.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 22, 2019 | Comm Center News
Work continues on shifting Barry Lawrence County Ambulance District
dispatching services from the Monett-Lawrence County 911 Center to Barry
County E-911 Center, but a couple of snafus will keep the system from
going live as planned on Oct. 1.
“We have three options,” said Valerie Wilson, director of operations.
“First is keep what we have and go with an internet protocol that will
signal from our base to a repeater in Butterfield. If the internet goes
down, so would our communications.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 21, 2019 | Comm Center News
Six months of management consulting
services at the York County 911 Center will cost taxpayers $297 per hour
for 2,524 hours of work, according to the contract the York County
Commissioners approved on Wednesday.
IXP
Corp., a New Jersey-based company specializing in 911 communications,
will have six employees working on the project under the $750,000 deal.
“Am
I happy about the cost? Of course not,” said York County Commissioner
Chris Reilly. “But can you put a price on public safety?”
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by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 21, 2019 | Comm Center News
Residents, workers and visitors in the Dublin, Hilliard, Upper
Arlington and, soon, Worthington communities will have the opportunity
to submit information that can be accessed by 911 dispatchers during
emergencies.
Representatives of the Northwest Regional Emergency
Communications Center in Dublin announced Sept. 19 they have subscribed
to Smart911, a service that allows residents to create free safety
profiles for their households via smart911.com or the Smart911 app
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