Shawnee Telecommunicator, Robert Conley, was recognized during the State 911 Authority Meeting as the Telecommunicator of the Quarter for the State of Oklahoma at the State Capitol Friday, Sept. 6.
Conley is the third recipient of this award and was nominated for his dedicated service to the responders and citizens.
For three years Conley has worked for the Shawnee police department.
WILKES-BARRE — A plan to borrow tens of millions of dollars to pay for upgrades to the Luzerne County 911 communication system will come before county council this month.
The plan will be discussed Tuesday at a council work session, and could be on council’s voting agenda in two weeks, according to county Manager David Pedri.
Representatives of Public Financial Management, the county’s financial consultant, will take part in the work session via phone, Pedri said. They and council members will discuss options PFM has explored for the long-planned borrowing, he said.
County leaders have said for years the borrowing would be needed to pay for a digital communication system for the county 911 communications center.
MUNCIE, Ind. — The contract between the city and Delaware County that supplies the funding for the Delaware County Emergency Operations Center, commonly known as 911 dispatch, is expiring and the county and city haven’t come to resolution to restore it.
In December 2018, Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler gave notice that he intended to end the longstanding agreement with the county for joint dispatch. The Delaware County commissioners threatened to end the agreement in 2017, but negotiated with the city before the deadline in December 2017 to continue the pact.
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Regional Health hosted its second First Responder Appreciation Event Saturday morning at Memorial Park.
The event was open to the public, and attendees were able to take part in an obstacle course, see a search and rescue demonstration and learn about first responders.
“Storm Area 51, They Can’t Stop All of Us” is an event created on Facebook that is currently planned for September 20, 2019, at Area 51, the US Air Force facility within the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR). The highly secure site has long been considered a crucial spot for UFOlogists, and the event purports to raid the site “in search of extraterrestrial life.”
Note: This is a great article on how a small rural county prepares for a possible mass event that started as a joke.
