by ECC Editor | Feb 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
Some 12,000 9-1-1 dispatchers, social workers, health and hospital workers, nurses, park workers, janitors, clerks and roads and maintenance workers — among others — represented by Service Employees International Union Local 521 plan to go on strike Friday unless the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors intervenes, the union said in a statement Sunday.
“The county is proposing eliminating the wage increase for June 2020 that they included in their ‘last, best and final’ offer of 2019,” said Janet Diaz, a patient services clerk at Valley Medical Center, in Sunday’s statement. “This is not only illegal, but a deliberate attack on the livelihoods of
by ECC Editor | Feb 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
SAN ANGELO — The San Angelo Fire Department will perform a test of the emergency alert system at 10 a.m. Tuesday by phone calls.
On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the alerts will be sent out over landlines using reverse 9-1-1 and will also be posted on The City of San Angelo Facebook and Twitter pages.
When activated by the fire department, alerts will be sent to every cellphone within the area designated – whether a neighborhood or the entire county, according to a news release… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Feb 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
MEDFORD, Ore. — Friends, family and law enforcement extended family are mourning the death of a longtime Oregon State Police Dispatcher Dina Rudesheim who died earlier this month.
Law enforcement in Jackson County took to the police airwaves to honor her with an end of watch call about 3:16 p.m. Saturday on the same day as her funeral… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Feb 25, 2020 | Articles
“Imagine being there for everyone’s worst day, every day. The reward is absolutely knowing you made a difference with each shift.”
These words from Johnna Sells, Franklin County 911 coordinator, tell us what telecommunicators deal with on every shift they work.
Never was I more thankful for the ability to dial those three short numbers to get help than I was 15 years ago, after I went careening backward down my basement steps onto concrete… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Feb 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
OWENSBORO, Ky. (2/24/20) — Owensboro-Daviess County Central Dispatch has implemented a new technology designed to improve notification of fire incidents to the Owensboro and Daviess County fire departments as well as Daviess County Volunteer Fire Departments.
Officials reported Implementing the technology is all about timing. Currently, during the 911 call, the call-taker telecommunicator will answer the call and… READ MORE
