by ECC Editor | Aug 14, 2020 | Comm Center News
Cape Girardeau County has taken another step toward adding texting capability to its 911 emergency system.
The County Commission on Thursday approved a resolution to accept a $9,140 grant from the Missouri 911 Service Board. That money will be added to $13,710 already awarded to the county as part of a $22,850 60/40 Next Generation (NG) 911 matching grant from the Missouri Department of Public Safety and administered through the Department of Homeland Security… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Aug 13, 2020 | Articles
Many buildings use video and audio monitoring, transmitting data to monitoring centers, which contact first responders when alarms are triggered. But even in 2020, information about a scene where an alarm was triggered is still often relayed to first responders by telephone.
“Video or audio data may be available in a monitoring center, and a description of what the operator sees or hears is commonly relayed to the ECC [Emergency Communications Center] verbally,” says Celia T. Besore, MBA, CAE, executive director of The Monitoring Association, the trade organization representing the professional monitoring industry…READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Aug 13, 2020 | Comm Center News
KENNEWICK, Wash. — Thousands of Verizon customers in central and eastern Washington and northeast Oregon were experiencing a service outage Wednesday night.
According to a Verizon outage tracker, 5,458 customers reported a service outage shortly after 9:30 p.m. The site’s outage map showed outages in larger metro areas.
911 services have been restored, according to the Spokane Regional Emergency Communications Center… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Aug 13, 2020 | Comm Center News
A Newark woman who repeatedly called 9-1-1 dispatchers and verbally abused them was charged with causing a false public alarm, authorities said.
Tahisha M. Bakr, 45, placed numerous calls to dispatchers in Mansfield Township on July 12, after having been previously warned not to call 9-1-1 for non-emergency purposes, police said… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Aug 13, 2020 | Comm Center News
(KCCR) — The Pierre City Commission has given approval to a request to update the dispatch equipment at the Central South Dakota Communications Center. Pierre Police Chief Jason Jones says the project has been in the works for a while.
Jones says CARES Act funding the city is receiving is helping to fund the upgrades… READ MORE
