by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 22, 2020 | Comm Center News
A couple of Bossier Sheriff’s Office dispatchers departed Bossier Parish Wednesday to help with emergency communications in southern Alabama with the disaster of Hurricane Sally.
Lt. Amy Pope, BSO Communications SupervisorLt. Amy Pope, supervisor of communications, and Dispatcher Jake Little are part of a statewide team of eight dispatchers with the Louisiana Telecommunications Emergency Response Team (LA-TERT) deployed to Baldwin County, Alabama at the Baldwin County 9-1-1 center…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 21, 2020 | Comm Center News
SALEM, Ore. – Dennis Schlies labored the Sept. 7 night time shift for METCOM 911, the dispatch coronary heart that handles emergency requires the Santiam Canyon in Oregon. So he knew.
He knew before his boss delivered the info by mobile phone, and before a colleague’s husband snapped nothing-but-rubble pictures.
He knew when he took seemingly essentially the most first calls only a few hasty-spreading fire sparked by downed vitality traces shut to an elementary school, the positioning of an incident philosophize put up for the Beachie Creek Hearth…
by ECC Editor | Sep 21, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
TULSA, Okla. — A new device could help save lives. It’s called, “The Locator.” It helps first responders find the exact location of an emergency.
Johnathan Harrison, founder of the product, was a paramedic in Tennessee in 2009. A new paramedic at the time, he responded to a call of a two-year-old in cardiac arrest in a mobile home park… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 20, 2020 | Comm Center News
HOOVER, Ala. (WIAT) — It’s not just police and fire that have been deployed to help those recovering from Hurricane Sally. Sunday, the city of Hoover deployed a small team of 911 dispatchers to help in the relief efforts.
Two Hoover 911 dispatchers are en route to Baldwin County and will work in Spanish Fort. The two will dispatch law enforcement officers as calls come in…
by ECC Editor | Sep 19, 2020 | Comm Center News
GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. — Monica Mae Green has been issued an arrest warrant for transmission of material harmful to a minor, tampering with physical evidence and possessing child pornography.
Green worked for the Clay County Sheriff’s Office Communications Center since January 2015. She was on administrative leave at the time of her arrest… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Sep 19, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Jefferson County 911 Administrative Board approved a $2.9 million budget for 2021 on Thursday for the Metropolitan Emergency Communications Association (MECA) as well as the transfer of 911 money to fund a new computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system, the first such system upgrade the communications center has had since 2007.
Funded by fees collected from user agencies along with fees collected on land line and cellular telephone bills, MECA provides emergency dispatch communications for eight area law enforcement agencies and 16 fire departments… READ MORE
