by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 24, 2020 | Comm Center News
Law enforcement officers, first responders and local leaders are banding together for a reading initiative for Bedford County students who are finishing the school year outside a traditional classroom setting — and with no, or limited, access to book stores and libraries.
The Bedford County Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with Bedford County Fire and Rescue, several Bedford County supervisors, and the Bedford County public school system, launched a reading program for students in their community starting April 13. Each day, a video of a member of local law enforcement, a first responder or local government official reading a book is posted online. The videos are pre-recorded and posted on the county sheriff’s YouTube channel…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 24, 2020 | Comm Center News
People classified as essential workers, or those who go to work each day despite the novel coronavirus pandemic, received thanks from the Harford County government in the form of a banner posted on the county administration building in Bel Air on Thursday.
“Thank you to Harford County’s essential employees,” says the banner, which is on the rear wall of the building at 220 S. Main St., facing the parking lot. County Executive Barry Glassman’s name is under the message of thanks…
by ECC Editor | Apr 23, 2020 | Comm Center News
CENTREVILLE — Queen Anne’s County released a statement Friday, April 17, recognizing National Public Safety Telecommunicator Week and thanking its dispatchers.
“While the county has been responding to the Coronavirus, we realize that we have not taken the time this week to recognize our heroes working behind the scenes 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to keep our community safe,” the county said in a news release… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 23, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office last week honored its public safety dispatchers and those throughout the United States.
“This is a very special time to celebrate and thank the truly outstanding public safety dispatchers that dedicate their lives to serving the public and the law enforcement agencies they so faithfully, courageously and compassionately support 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” said Siskiyou County Sheriff Jon Lopey…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 23, 2020 | Comm Center News
In a special video meeting Wednesday, the Branch County 911 Communications Board recommend the county award to J&K Communication of Indiana a $8.2 million bid to upgrade and rebuild the county’s police, fire and emergency communication system.
The system is a VHS radio service used in 1992 when the county took over all emergency radio operations. There are gaps in coverage in the rural areas. The county wants to upgrade to 800 MHz band radios…
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 23, 2020 | Comm Center News
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, 911 dispatchers are helping protect first responders unlike ever before.
Because the novel coronavirus is the top priority at Hennepin County Dispatch Center, for call dispatchers like Cindy Galland, a report about a stolen car comes with additional questions; she asks questions about fevers and symptoms in order to make sure first responders are not responding to a call which would put them in unnecessarily risky situations…
