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
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 2, 2020 | Comm Center News
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…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 1, 2020 | Comm Center News
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…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 31, 2020 | Comm Center News
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…
