by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 13, 2020 | Articles
As a 911 dispatcher, you provide assistance to your communities, your partners, families and friends. National Pubic Safety Telecommunicators Week is a wonderful time for us to recognize your dedication to the communities you serve. It’s also the perfect time for you to give back to yourself with three simple stress-busting steps.
Our friends at the Mayo Clinic share “Caregiving can have many rewards. Caregiver stress — the emotional and physical stress of caregiving …
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 13, 2020 | Articles, Opinions
Emergency 911 Dispatchers (Public Safety Telecommunicators) are considered essential employees but NOT First Responders. We like many others cannot quarantine, cannot always shelter at home. We must return to our jobs day after day and answer the call, putting ourselves and our families at risk in order to help others.
According to NENA (The National Emergency Number Association), as of July 2018 the United States had a reported 5,748 primary and secondary PSAP’s and 3,135 counties, which…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 13, 2020 | Articles, Opinions
After weeks of everyone getting accustomed to “Stay Home-Stay Safe” I just want to take a minute to recognize and acknowledge our professional team of dispatchers at Walla Walla Emergency Services Communications (or as we call it, WESCOM) — our local 9-1-1 center.
I know many in our community and elsewhere have been stressed out because they are more or less confined to being at home, but the folks staffing 9-1-1 centers don’t have that luxury or opportunity to spend any extra time with their families…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 13, 2020 | Articles, Opinions
Sadly, it too often takes a crisis — be it 9/11 or a local catastrophe — to cause Americans to really celebrate the value that first responders bring to society.
We’ve seen that admiration in spades of late as impromptu parades, homemade yard signs, and press briefing commentaries by county, state and federal executives have shined the spotlight on police, firefighters and ambulance crews for dealing with what the coronavirus crisis has thrown at them and our communities…
by ECC Editor | Apr 10, 2020 | Articles
The Collaborative Coalition for Intl. Public Safety has compiled recommendations for Emergency Services Organisations, incl. Public Safety Answering Points to help organisations respond & prepare in the best way possible during the COVID-19 outbreak.
COVID-19 is a challenge for all of us in society as well as for the many services with a role in protecting and looking after us. BAPCO is in a unique position, having members from across the spectrum of Public Safety, including from the development and supply side, as well as… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Apr 10, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Lyon County Commissioners approved an additional appropriation to the county’s Emergency Operations Center Thursday during its regularly-scheduled action session.
Flint Hills Community Health Center Chief Financial Officer Stephanie Ringgold and Lyon County Controller Dan Williams made the request for $100,000 in additional funding to help the county’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The funds are to be paid out of the county’s sales tax fund. It is the second such request for the Emergency Operations Center — which is housed at the Emporia FHCHC Clinic… READ MORE
