by ECC Editor | Jan 29, 2022 | Comm Center News
The Indio Police 9-1-1 dispatch center is preparing to roll out new software in the near future that will help improve people’s access to place an emergency call. This would include people who are attending any one of the large festivals or events brought to the Coachella Valley.
It’s going to get easier for the public to access emergency services when the time comes. It’s also going to be easier for dispatchers to know more about a situation behind a call.
There are going to be apps and even a button in certain cars that will make getting ahold of a 9-1-1 dispatcher much easier… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jan 28, 2022 | Comm Center News
AUGUSTA COUNTY, Va. (WVIR) – Augusta County is figuring out how to spend its American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds.
Wednesday night, the Board of Supervisors voted to help out the sheriff’s office and make some improvements at the Government Center in Verona.
The county has already spent almost $6 million on broadband, plus some money on employee bonuses. It met ARPA requirements, so now it can spend what’s left of its nearly $15 million in ARPA funds on whatever it want… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jan 27, 2022 | Comm Center News
hange is on the way for the delivery of emergency 9-1-1 services in Chatham-Kent.
Mandated by the Canadian Radio and Television Commission with a 2025 deadline, the switch will see a new ‘Next Generation 911’ (NG 911) digital system replacing the out-dated analog system currently in use.
At the Jan. 17 Chatham-Kent council meeting, Holly Barkwell of the Barkwell Holland group, presented councillors with the results of a recent municipal 911 needs assessment conducted by the company… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jan 26, 2022 | Comm Center News
GRANGEVILLE — Emergency calls to the Idaho County Sheriff’s Office have skyrocketed over the past three years because of the continued growing population, a communications officer reported Tuesday.
Mandee Mignerey, communications supervisor for the sheriff’s office, said the communications center — which dispatches for the sheriff’s office, Grangeville and Cottonwood city police, Idaho Fish and Game Department, U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management law enforcement, 12 EMS responders and 17 fire departments within the county — received 22,694 total emergency calls in 2021. That was an increase of 36.8% from 2019, an average of more than 62 emergency calls per day. In 2019, the average was 45 per day… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jan 24, 2022 | Comm Center News
In an emergency situation, seconds could make the distinction among existence and death. To assist Rhode Island residents, a neighborhood lawmaker is asking for expanded CPR certifications for the state’s 911 operators. Under the invoice, at the least one operator skilled in telecommunicator CPR could be required to be on obligation in any respect instances.
“911 operators are the actual first responders and may make the distinction among existence and death,” Rep. Mia Ackerman (D-Dist. 45, Cumberland, Lincoln) said. “When CPR begins offevolved earlier than the appearance of an emergency scientific technician, the character in cardiac arrest is two-to-3 instances much more likely to survive. T-CPR can assist untrained callers offer cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It also can remind folks that are skilled the way to offer wonderful CPR… READ MORE
