MONTROSS, Va. (ABC7) — A short home video created by Tina and Steve Keene has gone viral in their small town of Montross, Virginia.
They are doing their best during this quarantine and like to spend their time fishing at their property.
Keene sings, “Sitting on our pier on the lake, wishing this virus would just go away…
Two months after a May 24 accident where a young boy who was hit with a boat propeller swimming in Round Lake near Randall, Sheriff Shawn Larsen recognized all those involved in saving the boy’s life.
“Basically Dalton, age 9, was run over by a boat propeller and he had some serious injuries and he was airlifted to Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC) and he’s here with us today,” said Larsen. “And so are a lot of the first responders and emergency personnel who were at the scene, so it’s really a great day to be able to recognize some of these heroes with us…
DALLAS – A group of Dallas dispatchers banded together to help a senior citizen who called 911 for help because she didn’t have anything to eat. Dallas police say Valencia Crowder, a 911 dispatcher, received a call in late March from a senior citizen. The woman said she had exhausted all her resources and had nothing to eat. She called 911 hoping they could point her a city program that could help her…
SCOTT COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) – The Scott County E911 Communications Center has been awarded a $250,000 grant through the Missouri 911 Service Board.
The grant, along with other funds, will help Scott County 911 upgrade equipment, software, and other assets valuable to citizens of Scott County and agencies that the Center services.
Communications Director Angie Rodgers said, “This grant along with the other funding, will provide us with a long-term solution for our communications center and drastically improve reliability and networks for all agencies…
The City of Springfield and Clark County 9-1-1 dispatch centers will move toward combining in an effort to improve emergency services in the community.
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Tennessee, one of the states furthest along in adopting next-generation 911 technology, has hired a consulting firm to evaluate the cybersecurity preparedness of the state’s emergency call centers.
The company, Mission Critical Partners, said Wednesday that it will conduct assessments of Tennessee’s public safety answering points — at least those that opt into the review process — in search of vulnerabilities on an increasingly digital network…
