by ECC Editor | Sep 3, 2020 | Comm Center News
RIPLEY COUNTY, In. (FOX19) – An Indiana state trooper and a dispatcher are being hailed as heroes after helping save a woman from a burning car.
Sgt. Jared Black works out of the ISP post in Versailles, In. According to Black, a 17-year-old girl called 911 in late August after she crashed her car on Country Road 600 and noticed her car was on fire. Dispatcher Brittany Herbert worked with Black, who was able to pull the girl from her car before the flames engulfed it… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 3, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC or Commission) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB or Bureau) seeks comment on the feasibility of allowing emergency access to providers’ Wi-Fi access points, as directed by the RAY BAUM’s Act of 2018. The RAY BAUM’s Act of 2018 requires the Commission, by March 23, 2021, to submit a study on the public safety benefits, technical feasibility and costs of: (1) making telecommunications service provider-owned Wi-Fi access points available to the general public for access to 9-1-1 services when mobile service is unavailable…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 3, 2020 | Comm Center News
The head of the District of Columbia’s emergency call center tells WTOP “there is not a systematic problem with DC 911,” in response to allegations that fire and EMS crews have been sent to wrong addresses more times this year than the last five years combined.
Safety advocate Dave Statter, a former reporter, has been posting radio transmissions on his Statter911 site that document D.C. Fire and EMS crews being dispatched to wrong, or in some cases nonexistent addresses, more than three dozen times since December…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Nebraska Public Service Commission has approved funding that will pay for equipment and the first year of service and maintenance for a 9-1-1 backup system for Scotts Bluff County.
The PSC on Tuesday approved the county’s request to use approximately $112,500 in set-aside funds to pay for installation of the VIPER system, which is already in use in a number of Panhandle counties as well as other parts of the state…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 2, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The landscape for public safety technology is changing almost every day, both in terms of major regulatory changes and technology advances that impact public safety, and in new product announcements.
So where is it all headed? Here are three new and three emerging technology advances that will shape public safety in the near future, as well as public safety and tech experts’ expectations on what will come into play over the longer term…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
The county is taking big steps toward having more public safety communication and broadband internet towers in Kosciusko, including having the three locations for them.
At the county commissioners meeting Tuesday, Terry Burnworth, of Pyramid Consulting, asked for approval “to do the documents and bidding of the three public safety towers and then we’ll do an alternate of three broadband towers…
