by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 4, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
One of the many lessons learned from the Smart Cities movement is that you can achieve significant improvement in community safety and resilience when you use network technologies to facilitate communications and data sharing. Information gets to responders more quickly and comprehensively which leads to more streamlined processes and better decision making in the field.
When walking through a modern Real Time Crime Center (RTCC), it is easy to become fixated on the huge video walls, workstations with elaborate dashboards, and images streaming into the center from cameras across the city…
by ECC Editor | Sep 3, 2020 | Comm Center News, Opinions
Dear Mr. Michael Fletcher, director of Columbia 9-1-1:
As a taxpayer in the Columbia 9-1-1 Communication District, I feel compelled to address some concerns I have about some actions being taken at 9-1-1. The issue I am referring to is regarding the committee you have formed to discuss the facets of a new radio system. I also understand that you have made the decision to keep these meetings private… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Sep 3, 2020 | Comm Center News
Prince George has seen another month with well over 100 overdose calls – a city that normally averages 52 calls per month.
In August, paramedics responded to 129 overdose calls in the northern capital, which is one more than July’s 128 calls to BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS).
That call load compares to 58 in June and 51 in May earlier this year… READ MORE
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…
