An investigation into possible wrongdoing involving prescription medications is underway inside the St. Joseph County 911 Dispatch Center. The investigation involves accusations that a dispatch employee was providing medications to co-workers. St. Joseph County Police detectives gave been conducting interviews regarding the alleged activity and … READ MORE
CINCINNATI — A dispatcher refused to send emergency help to an Ohio man experiencing an apparent stroke the night of Jan. 12. He ended up dying, and the next day, there was a new 911 call from his neighbor, demanding emergency services at least help remove the body from their apartment complex.
According to WCPO, College Hill City Manager Patrick Duhaney called the incident “a serious neglect of duty” in an email Monday, March 2 to the College Hill City Council, describing in detail the potentially life-saving steps…
TEXARKANA, Texas — The City Council has begun a project to update its outdoor warning system with three sirens, one located in Spring Lake Park.
“Several of the sirens have been in place since the 70s,” said Tracey Litton, deputy emergency management coordinator with the Texas-side Fire Department. “There is new technology now available that would make this system more effective that the city has decided to incorporate. Also, the maintenance on some of them has become expensive enough to warrant them being replaced.” Twelve of the city’s 13 sirens will eventually be… READ MORE
CANANDAIGUA N.Y. (WHEC) – A new potentially life-saving tool is at the fingertips of first responders in Ontario County.
As part of an upgrade to its phone system, emergency coordinators at the county’s 9-1-1 center are using a program called “Rapid SOS”, which uses GPS technology in smartphones to speed up response times.
Senior Communications Officer Jeff Edwards says the center takes hundreds of 9-1-1… READ MORE
A Northern Kentucky police officer and a dispatcher graduated from their training programs at the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training.
Independence Police Officer Douglas M. Wolking was one of thirty-one officers to graduate from the basic training program where major training areas included law offenses and procedures, vehicle operations, firearms, investigations, first aid and CPR, patrol procedures, orientation for new law enforcement families and the mechanics of arrest, restraint and control…
Character reveals itself in bad times more than in good.
It would be totally accurate to say that Joe Finn’s character revealed itself at any number of fires he has worked over the last 36 years, none more so than a horrible March day in the Back Bay in 2014, when the wind howled with a mournful evil, as if it had originated in hell.
Joe Finn was the deputy chief in charge of that wind-whipped fire and he had to make the hardest decision in his life, which was to pull everybody working the fire out of the building, even though two firefighters were trapped inside…
