The efforts of two Saint John police officers helped save the life of a woman 1,300 kilometres away in Ontario.
It all started Tuesday afternoon when the Saint John Public Safety Communications Centre received a call from Kids Help Phone.
They said a suicidal woman was texting them saying she was going to jump from the building where she works…
State Rep. Rush Bricken briefed the Coffee County Commission on his proposed bill on Capitol Hill concerning funding of 911 facilities during their recent meeting.
The proposed bill (HB 2520) will change the way Coffee County 911 District (Coffee County Communications Center) covers payroll. Currently, Coffee County taxpayers pay for the salaries of employees working at the center. If the new legislature is approved, the communications center’s payroll will be covered by 911 fees charged to every citizen and business for their land lines and cell phones… READ MORE
The Department of Public Safety (DPS) recently made a deal with the City of Palmer to build a new 911 dispatch center in Palmer. It was announced at a May 12 meeting of the Palmer City Council. But the origins and background of this deal reveal there is much more to the story.
DPS operates a 911 dispatch center in Fairbanks, known as the Northern Operations Center. They also operate a 911 dispatch center in Ketchikan, which serves Southeast Alaska. In Wasilla and Soldotna…
BELLA VISTA — Emergency dispatchers are working with an updated system providing more detailed maps and allowing for more rapid deployment.
Administrative Lt. Ryan Harmon said the new system, Intrado Viper, is the standard system for all of Benton County’s public safety answering points. The system is used by the Benton County Sheriff’s Office, Bentonville, Rogers and Siloam Springs dispatch units, he said…
| As Canada moves to a NENA i3 based NG9-1-1 infrastructure nationally, there is a need to create a Canadian profile for the PIDF-LO to convey civic locations in a common standardized form across the country, interoperable with neighboring countries also moving to NG9-1-1. The focus of this new Working Group is to provide a deliverable standard that represents the Canadian profile of PIDF-LO to its addressing standards, with consideration to the depiction of non-addressed locations (e.g. cross streets, natural formations, etc.), as appropriate… |
Throughout the night on March 2-3, 2020, a supercell thunderstorm traveled through the middle of Tennessee, producing several violent tornadoes that wrecked multiple buildings and took several lives. Shortly after midnight on March 3, an EF-3 tornado with winds up to 165 miles per hour carved a path over 50 miles long through Nashville, severely damaging the local airport. As the supercell moved east, an EF-4 tornado touched down near Putnam County, producing winds up to 175 miles per hour – the strongest tornado the nation has seen in nearly three years…
The EF-4 tornado destroyed over 100 structures, including part of a local public safety radio tower. With this critical component damaged, responders turned to FirstNet to communicate and carry out damage assessment. READ MORE
