A Moniteau County emergency dispatcher listened to a 911 call come from her own home on Sunday.
Moniteau County 911 and Emergency Dispatch shared that one of its staff members was on duty when a 911 call came in from her daughter stating that their home was on fire.
People calling 911 in East Hampton Town won’t notice a change, but come Jan. 1, for the first time in decades, calls coming from outside of East Hampton Village will be handled from the town police headquarters instead of from the village’s Emergency Services Building.
Columbiana County 911 is at risk of losing almost 30% of its state funding.
The 911 system gets funding from the state from a wireless fee. For every wireless phone in the county they get .40 cents. That fee is set to drop to .25 cents in October.
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) – The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Foundation, in partnership with Resorts World, recognized 911 dispatchers Kacy Rafferty and Alicia Rivera Wednesday with the Good Ticket Award.
The two were recognized for remaining clam and focused while relaying important information to the officers responding during a high-speed chase across the Las Vegas Valley involving a murder suspect linked to three carjackings last month.
The Monitoring Association (TMA) announced today that Anoka County Emergency Communications Center (ECC) has dramatically reduced the amount of time that 911 telecommunicators spend on calls generated by alarm and sensor systems as a result of implementing TMA’s ASAP Service. The solution leverages the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP), which was developed jointly by TMA and the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO).
“Our latest data shows that ASAP Service is saving our telecommunicators an average of 30 hours each month,” said Kari Morrissey, Anoka County’s director of emergency communications.
Two San Diego County sheriff’s deputies and an off-duty dispatcher are being credited with saving the life of an 11-year-old boy with autism who was found wandering in freeway traffic earlier this year.
The incident happened on March 9 after the child went missing from a Vons grocery store around 4:30 p.m. while shopping with his family. Over the course of about 45 minutes, he had wandered more than two miles and ended up near State Route 52 and Mast Boulevard, where he ran into traffic.
