by AllThingsECC.com | May 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
| NENA is proud to publish How 9-1-1 Is Changing in a COVID-19 World, the second paper in NENA’s 9-1-1 & COVID-19 report series. These reports are designed to inform public-safety stakeholders, policymakers, and the public about how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting 9-1-1 operations, technology, and personnel.
This report, based on 500 survey responses from 9-1-1 professionals across 44 states and territories, builds upon insights from our initial report published on April 3, 2020. For example, the first survey asked respondents… |
by ECC Editor | May 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
READING, Pa. – The Reading Police Department’s communications center will move back to City Hall on Friday.
The center will open at 3 p.m., according to RPD officials, who said that anyone who needs to file a police report or discuss other business can do so by entering the vestibule on the North Eighth Street side of the building.
The communications center closed in March for renovations… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | May 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Kewaunee County 9-1-1 emergency dispatch service will get a long-overdue upgrade with the help of a federal grant.
The County Board last week approved an $83,555.20 transfer to provide a 40% match for a $125,332.80 grant from the federally funded Wisconsin NextGen 9-1-1 Reimbursement Grant Program.
“We are woefully at our end of life in our 9-1-1,” Sheriff Matt Joski told supervisors…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 8, 2020 | Comm Center News
Three public safety professionals from Oakland County were among those called to help at the TCF Center’s temporary medical care facility in Detroit, set up for the COVID-19 outbreak.
Matt Weil, Ken Kiley and Kevin Humphreys are part of the Oakland County Communications Support Team that was on-site at the TCF Center for the past month. The field hospital officially shut down Thursday because area hospitals are able to handle the current…
by ECC Editor | May 7, 2020 | Comm Center News
SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. — For any 911 call center, every second counts.
A speedy response could be the difference between life and death. And with most of the country in a state of emergency, first responders are more critical now than ever.
In Spokane County, that responsibility currently falls to an organization called Spokane Regional Emergency Communications, or SREC. Within city limits, it falls to the Combined Communications Center… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | May 7, 2020 | Comm Center News
WILSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — We have an update to a story we shared with you Wednesday after Wilson County dispatch received a number of calls from people in Davidson County during Sunday’s deadly storm.
Many complained that both emergency lines and non-emergency lines were busy. A flaw News 2 was told has since been fixed.
“It is possible to call 911 and get a busy signal,” said Stephen Martini, Director of Metro Nashville…
