by ECC Editor | Jun 19, 2020 | Comm Center News
To finance the exploding cost of responding to 9-1-1 calls, the City of Canyon Lake will begin charging the recipients of the service a monthly fee beginning July 1. All Canyon Lake residents are being charged, via the property tax roll, $16 per month for the service, unless they have opted out. Those who have opted out or who are not residents, but receive the Emergency Medical Services (EMS), will be charged $1,483 per patient, per call.
The EMS Subscription Program (Ordinance No.187) was adopted by the city council after much… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jun 19, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Despite the need for lawmakers to provide emergency relief during COVID-19 pandemic, they must not allow the health crisis to overshadow needs for overdue updates to the country’s aged 911 infrastructure, Brian Fontes, chief executive of the National Emergency Number Association, warned on Wednesday.
Fontes, whose organization earlier this year conducted surveys of the nation’s public safety answering points, or PSAPs, to better understand how the health crisis is affecting the ability of those call centers… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jun 18, 2020 | Comm Center News
An employee at the Alachua County Sheriff’s office is being honored for her working rescuing a sexual abuse survivor.
The sheriff’s office named Cherie Muse as its 2019 employee of the year.
Muse earned the award after the telecommunicator received a text from a 15-year-old girl who was sexually battered by a man. The girl was alone with him at an unknown location. Muse used the girl’s descriptions of landmarks to help lead deputies to the girl… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jun 18, 2020 | Comm Center News
MANSFIELD — Richland County commissioners on Tuesday approved up to an additional $83,000 for alterations to a project to upgrade, renovate and relocate aspects of the sheriff’s department — including the 9-1-1 dispatch center — within the Peoples Community Center.
The total cost for the project, the first the county has done under the design-and-build process, has risen to $916,000, though commissioners pointed out the… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jun 18, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
As new COVID-19 cases continue to rise in 22 states and strain emergency departments nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) suggest ER visits in April were down 42% across the country compared to the same period last year.
Additionally, new data from ImageTrend Collaborate™, a national pre-hospital de-identified database, suggests 9-1-1 means of transport are down 29% from January 2020 to April 2020. Yet, heart attacks and strokes haven’t stopped for COVID-19… READ MORE
