by ECC Editor | Apr 1, 2021 | Comm Center News
Teamwork from dispatchers, including Multi Agency Communication Center in Grant County, Washington State Patrol and swift acting grandmother, Wanda Rand, resulted in the birth and revival of a newborn on March 19.
A 911 call alerted dispatch that a westbound vehicle heading into Grant County on 1-90 had a woman, Martina Medrano, going into labor. Multi Agency Communications Center communications officer, Summer Mann, provided delivery instructions to grandmother, Wanda Rand, as the vehicle stopped for the delivery on Frontage Road on exit 188. Rand delivered her grandchild in the backseat of the car… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Mar 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
St. Francois County Joint Communications Center will be asking voters on April 6 to make permanent the 3/8-cent sales tax they last approved in 2014. The tax generates about $3 million annually for round-the-clock, emergency 911 dispatch services serving St. Francois and Ste. Genevieve counties.
The tax was scheduled to sunset this year, but due to the almost-total loss of the landline-phone tax—a tax whose decline drove the center to pursue the sales tax about seven years ago in the first place — the center relies “100%” on the revenue the 3/8-cent generates, said Director Alan Wells… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Mar 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
PENDER COUNTY, N.C. (WECT) – Commissioners in Pender County have appointed a new director for the county’s Emergency Management department.
Tommy Batson, who most recently served as the county’s fire marshal and assistant emergency management director, was chosen to succeed State Representative Carson Smith, a former sheriff of Pender County who was appointed to the role in an interim capacity in March of last year... READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Mar 30, 2021 | Jobs
The Borough of South Plainfield is looking for dedicated and collaborative individuals to join our team of talented and valued Public Safety Telecommunicators. We are currently hiring full time and per diem Telecommunicators/Dispatchers to perform various technical tasks designed to assist in public safety and welfare in directing proper police, fire, and first aid/rescue personnel. This position is responsible for receiving emergency and non-emergency calls for service over the phone and other means, employ appropriate call screening protocols, and responding to those calls by dispatching appropriate resources… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Mar 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
Longmont would annex McIntosh Lake and a set of city-owned properties to the north, west and south of that irrigation reservoir, under a proposal up for discussion at Tuesday night’s City Council meeting.
Currently, Boulder County has the primary responsibility for responding to emergencies on the lake and its shoreline, as well as any emergencies on the city-owned properties adjacent to the reservoir company’s property.
However, many 911 calls about those emergencies are typically answered by Longmont’s Emergency Communications Center, and then transferred to the Boulder County Sheriff’s communications center, if the calls for service are about emergencies on the water or on land in the nearby incorporated area… READ MORE
