by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 6, 2020 | Comm Center News
St. Cloud Police Department’s 9-1-1 Communications Center was recently reaccredited as an Emergency Medical, Fire and Police Dispatch Center of Excellence by the Board of Accreditation of the International Academies of Emergency Dispatch (IAED). The department’s 9-1-1 Communications Center has the distinguished honor of being the 12th Triple Accredited Center in the World.
The IAED is a non-profit standard-setting organization promoting safe and effective emergency dispatch services world-wide. An Accredited Center of Excellence (ACE) is the highest distinction in 9-1-1 emergency communication services…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 6, 2020 | Comm Center News
GREENWICH — The Greenwich dispatch center has been extremely busy dealing with the impact of Tropical Storm Isaias on the community.
The 911 call center was staffed with six dispatchers during the height of the storm Tuesday, when the volume of emergency calls coming in was substantial, police said.
The emergency calls on that one day were just over a quarter, or 27 percent, of what the center handles during a full month during the summer, according to Greenwich police…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 6, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
In last week’s Advocate, I said one good thing had resulted from the pandemic because changing circumstances influenced more public-safety agencies to join the FirstNet network. I was concerned about both wired and wireless networks encountering difficulties keeping up with the increased load of work-from-home and school-from-home programs that started in March. Since FirstNet (Built with AT&T) is the only network with dedicated spectrum for public-safety broadband, I concluded that FirstNet would have a decided advantage if there were network slowdowns or other disruptions on other networks…
by ECC Editor | Aug 6, 2020 | Comm Center News
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Representatives of the county’s fire and police departments are in agreement that long-term solutions to communications issues in the region need to be addressed, such as getting around the hilly terrain and upgrading or replacing antiquated equipment. Exactly how the problems will be remedied will be determined by a feasibility study… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Aug 6, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Apps like Uber or Lyft can find you easily for a ride to the airport. So why is getting help to get to a hospital in an emergency so much more complicated?
The authors of a new editorial in JAMA Cardiology say technologies used by ride sharing and even pizza delivery operations are more advanced in some communities than those used in the life-and-death circumstances managed by local 911 centers. But, they point out, things are changing… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 6, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
Public safety should retain control of its 50 MHz of 4.9 GHz spectrum—airwaves that the FCC is considering for at least some commercial use—through an allocation to the FirstNet Authority, according to the newly formed Public Safety Spectrum Alliance (PSSA).
“We’re concerned that public safety is going to lose spectrum that we might need,” Jeff Johnson, CEO of the Western Fire Chiefs Association and former vice chairman of the FirstNet Authority, said during an interview with IWCE’s Urgent Communications. “[The PSSA was] created to provide a voice to public safety, saying, ‘We think that the 4.9 GHz spectrum needs to remain with public safety’—that’s Position 1…
