by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 4, 2020 | Comm Center News
SEELEY LAKE – As of Tuesday, July 21, Missoula Emergency Services Incorporated (MESI) and Life Flight Network will no longer automatically respond when an Advanced Life Support (ALS) call is dispatched in the Seeley Lake Fire District. Instead, MESI will respond as mutual aid resource when requested and Life Flight will be on standby.
Seeley Lake Fire Chief and Paramedic Dave Lane requested the change to automatic dispatch that has been in place for more than 30 years…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 3, 2020 | Comm Center News
To better help explain the proposal to voters, Executive Director for the Kalamazoo County Consolidated Dispatch Authority Jeff Troyer recently spoke with WKZO to clarify what the millage proposal will do.
“Voters will be asked to consider a 9-1-1 millage that is equal to 0.65 mills,” Troyer said. “That will be dedicated funding for 9-1-1 and public dispatch safety service.”
Troyer says that the number is deduced from the median market home value throughout the county…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 3, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in partnership with the Department of Transportation (DoT), has selected the Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute (CIRI), a DHS Center of Excellence led by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), to develop a framework and process for testing the interoperability and compatibility of Next Generation 911 (NG911) systems.
NG911 refers to an updated version of the current nationwide emergency response system operating on an Internet Protocol (IP) platform that will enable voice, video, photographs, text, and future communications technologies to be transmitted to and by the public and first responders for assistance…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 3, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Wilton Police Department is reminding residents how the town will communicate with the community during emergency management situations.
The first line of communication is through the Town’s E-Alert system facilitated through the town of Wilton website. The community can subscribe to receive E-Alerts by visiting wiltonct.org and clicking on the “Subscribe to E-Alerts” link found under the “Residents” tab. Check the box to receive “Urgent Alerts…
by ECC Editor | Aug 2, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
An estimated 240 million emergency 9-1-1 calls are made from phones in the United States each year, with least 80 percent originating from wireless devices, according to the National Emergency Number Association.
Among those calls are an increasingly unhealthy number of 9-1-1 misdials, many coming from newer models of some cell phones and smart watches with a feature that activates an automated emergency call when side buttons are pressed multiple times — often accidentally… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Aug 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
MONTCLAIR – On July 30th, The New Jersey Senate unanimously passed S-2635, sponsored by Senator Nia Gill, which includes false incrimination and filing a false police report as a form of bias intimidation and establishes the crime of a false 9-1-1 call with the purpose to intimidate or harass based on race or other protected class.
In May of 2020, a white woman walking her dog in Central Park in New York called the police on a Black birdwatcher after he asked her to leash her dog… READ MORE
