The Lee County Public Safety Center, formerly Lee Emergency Operations Center, has been improved and expanded and reopened this week after a year-and-a-half of work.
The enlarged Public Safety Center now features a second building attached to the existing Emergency Operations Center building.
LYONS, N.Y. – Wayne County EMS Coordinator Paul Fera says a dispatcher went into cardiac arrest while working in the Wayne County 911 Center on May 26.
Fera says coworkers noticed right away and got her to the floor to start CPR. He says the supervisor grabbed the AED and other coworkers delivered a shock from it.
Lee County dispatchers Kelly Boos and Jessica Knipple helped guide the father as the baby was in distress with the umbilical cord wrapped around its neck
“It’s a miracle of life right before our eyes,” Lee County 911 Director Shelley Dallas said at Thursday’s award ceremony.
Leon County’s 911 system is getting an upgrade. It’s called Next Generation 911.
ABC 27’s Brieanna Smith talked to Emergency Management Director Kevin Peters who says it’s designed to adapt to current and future technologies.
For rural communities, relying on neighboring cities to help during times of crisis isn’t always guaranteed, according to one Alaska city official, whose government has turned to the cloud to strengthen and protect its emergency dispatch services against potential power outages.
In the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, “we don’t have a lot of resources that are close to us,” said Kristi Meredith, dispatch manager at the Fairbanks Emergency Communications Center. “The next biggest city is 356 miles away … you can very easily be cut off from anybody.”
BROWN COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) – The Brown County Board of Supervisors heard from 911 dispatch callers Wednesday night on concerns about a proposed overtime policy.
The county currently has 20 vacancies for dispatch positions — up from 15 in March — and despite past efforts to attract new dispatchers, including increasing pay back in 2023, the staffing issue remains.
