by ECC Editor | Jun 16, 2020 | Comm Center News
MARYSVILLE, Wash. — It was almost bedtime when a strange noise told Nya Palek something was wrong. “It was a noise that caught my attention. I knew somebody needed my help in the house.”
That ‘somebody’ was her son, 6’7” high school senior, Lul Palek. The otherwise healthy athlete was non-responsive, gasping for air facedown, and making strange noises.
Nya has been a registered nurse at Providence for more than 15 years. She knows how to do… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 15, 2020 | Comm Center News
A 911 dispatcher who watched George Floyd‘s arrest in real-time spoke to her supervisor over concerns regarding the four officers’ behavior at the scene.
In audio released Monday the unidentified woman tells her boss: ‘I don’t know, you can call me a snitch if you want to’ before telling him ‘all of them sat on this man’.
She made the comments after watching the arrest unfold in real-time on security cameras position…
by ECC Editor | Jun 15, 2020 | Comm Center News
WARRENSBURG — Johnson County Central Dispatch lost a valued member of its team with the passing of Records Clerk and Terminal Agency Coordinator (TAC) Douglas Butland, 62, the morning of Monday, June 8.
Butland was initially hired for a telecommunicator position at JCCD, but during his training, he was offered the position of records clerk and accepted… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Jun 15, 2020 | Comm Center News
University of Mary Washington President Troy Paino has announced the creation of an advisory panel tasked with reviewing the campus police response to the May 31 protests in downtown Fredericksburg.
“The UMW Officers were there to protect the Fredericksburg Police Headquarters which contains the Emergency Communications Center for Police, Fire & Rescue as well as EMS services,” Hall told the students in an email. “In this capacity, they provided support to the regional Tactical Field Force by allowing the City units to respond to disorderly conduct… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 15, 2020 | Comm Center News
Having adjudicated all comments, the NENA Managing & Monitoring NG9‑1‑1 Information Document is now considered “stable.” Per NENA IPR & Antitrust Policy, Section 4.5.1 “Stable Form Notice” is being issued and is shown below.4.5 Declarations during Review.
Deliverable Information
Title: NENA Managing & Monitoring NG9‑1‑1 Information Document
Document Number: NENA-INF-040.1-2020
URL: https://dev.nena.org/higherlogic/ws/public/document?document_id=19307&wg_id=a00974df-fbab-49b7-b015-e33f9f93dbe6
Date of Notice: June 16, 2020
Submission Deadline: July 17, 2020…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 15, 2020 | Articles, Comm Center News
For the past six and a half years, James, a military veteran in his thirties, has spent his days in a 911 call center on the East Coast, counseling strangers during some of the worst moments of their lives.
“I like helping people and I’m good at what I do,” he told The Daily Beast.
James thinks he has “a couple dozen CPR saves”—incidents when he’s talked someone through performing the procedure, keeping someone alive until…
