by ECC Editor | Aug 30, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Empty cow pastures on one day can be bustling with hundreds of firefighters the next as fire camps with colorful tent cities spring up.
More than 20,000 wildland firefighters are battling some 100 large wildfires in the U.S. West, and truckloads of supplies and equipment are needed to keep them effective at fighting flames for weeks on end.
“We’ll set up a small village,” said Evans Kuo, a “Type 1” incident commander assigned to the nation’s biggest and most dangerous wildfires. His incident command team has 44 members. “The main idea of the camp is to not only house the incident command team, but also house the base camp that has food, water, sleeping and showers.” … READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Aug 30, 2021 | Comm Center News
The 911 system is not working in New Orleans and St. Charles Parish in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, officials said Monday morning.
Jefferson Parish’s system was down earlier Monday, but service had been restored as of 9 a.m.
In Orleans, if you have an emergency, officials said you should go to your nearest fire station or approach a police officer.
In Jefferson Parish, officials said you should call 911. If the service goes down again, people can call 504-227-1400, which is the administrative number for the 911 Center. However, that line had stopped working as of 9 a.m., JPSO said… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Aug 29, 2021 | Comm Center News
Orange County officials have a solid track record of repurposing old buildings for county office space. The county’s primary administration office—the Gordon Building on Main Street—once was the Leggett department store. The nearby building services office was the Main Street Dollar General. The county also has adaptively reused the former library building on Belleview Avenue (for public works) and the historic clerk’s office next to the courthouse (economic development and tourism).
But for the first time since the Sedwick Building in the mid-1990s, Orange County is constructing a purpose-built facility. Make that multi-purpose… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Aug 29, 2021 | Comm Center News
NEW SCOTLAND — A year ago, citing coronavirus concerns and major savings to taxpayers, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple requested and received permission to move the county’s Emergency 9-1-1 Communications Center from its planned location at the Shaker Place Nursing Home in Colonie to the sheriff’s public-safety building in Clarksville.
Barring the county legislature voting down the project, “we anticipate putting a shovel in the ground in about 25 [to] 30 days,” Apple said on Aug. 24… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Aug 28, 2021 | Comm Center News
ST. LOUIS — In response to months of complaints about St. Louis 911 callers being left on hold, Mayor Tishaura O. Jones announced plans Thursday to combine the city police and fire emergency call centers to eliminate a system that, Jones says, has created a 911 bottleneck in the city for years.
The Jones administration announced Thursday that the city aims to move its fire and EMS department 911 dispatchers to the police department’s downtown call center by October.
In the long term, interim Public Safety Director Dan Isom said the city plans to combine all dispatchers into one unit under the St. Louis Emergency Management Agency and build a multimillion-dollar facility to house them… READ MORE
