by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 29, 2020 | Comm Center News
Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman said Monday that it won’t be long before the new emergency communications center will be up and running.
Newman said if all goes as planned dispatchers will move to the new building and began to receive and dispatch emergency calls there.
In addition to having new dispatch consoles, radios and panels, the facility which is located on Lela Street, behind the Jasper County Jail, will have a small kitchen along with showers and other provisions for long stays during hurricanes, storms and other disaster…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 29, 2020 | Comm Center News
WYTHEVILLE, Va. (WSET) — A Virginia State Police Wytheville Division Dispatcher earned statewide honors at the VSP Superintendent’s Award Ceremony.
Dispatcher Alexander J. Dolinger was presented with the Virginia State Police 2019 Telecommunicator of the year award last week at VSP’s administrative headquarters in Chesterfield County…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 29, 2020 | Comm Center News
UPDATE: The communication system appears to be back working at this time. There has been no other information on what caused the outage.
ORIGINAL STORY
LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) – The primary communication system for emergency responders across much of Oklahoma has gone offline.
On Tuesday morning, the 800mhz radio system used by many agencies, including all of Comanche County emergency agencies, crashed for an unknown reason…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 27, 2020 | Comm Center News, Press Release
The Industry Council for Emergency Response Technologies, Inc. (“iCERT”) today publicly announced the formation of a comprehensive effort to promote effective integration and use of data in public safety operations; the Data Integration Initiative (“DII”). The DII will address new and more effective ways to perform mission critical operations as significant amounts of data from an increasing number of source points are generated and delivered to public safety communication centers. The DII has strategic, operational, and educational goals including recommendations related to core areas impacting the future of public safety data such as technology, analysis, management, security, privacy, and funding…
by ECC Editor | Sep 27, 2020 | Comm Center News
CHAMPAIGN COUNTY — Joe Hester and Chelsey Jordan Baumann are being remembered by first responders in Champaign County for their dedication to serving the community and willingness to help others.
The couple died in a motorcycle accident in Huber Heights on Thursday.
Baumann was a 911 dispatcher for the Champaign Countywide Communications Center and Hester was a firefighter with the Urbana Fire Division… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Sep 27, 2020 | Comm Center News
Transferring dispatch services from the Communications Center in Meeker to the Colorado State Patrol’s (CSP) regional call center in Craig won’t be as easy as simply signing a contract and pushing a button, RBC Commissioners learned Tuesday in a work session with Jeff Davis, director of CSP’s communications branch; Elaine Moe, Craig Regional Center director and the deputy director of the Craig center. The Craig call center currently serves 12 different entities… READ MORE
