Sugar Land City Council recently approved a resolution to utilize the construction manager at risk (CMAR) procurement method to build a new emergency operations center (EOC) and dispatch center.
LINCOLN, Neb. —
Nebraska senators are ready to dial up new legislation after statewide 911 outages downed phone lines for operators at call centers.
Over the past three to four months, the Nebraska Public Service Commission says it has sought to determine the cause and scope of two widespread outages. State senators say the results will help guide the response to future disruptions at the hands of technology.
OAKLAND, Calif. (KRON) – KRON4 learned Wednesday that major missteps kept hundreds of dispatching jobs unfilled in Oakland. A deep dive into the city’s hiring process revealed hundreds of applications were ignored for an entire year.
DARLINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) – The Darlington County coroner identified a 21-year-old mother, who worked for the county as a 911 dispatcher, as the woman killed in a Wednesday night shooting.
The city of Norfolk was short 26 dispatchers as of Dec. 6.
“It is more than normal, but unfortunately it is par for the course with the time that we’re seeing,” Redick explained. “Not only regionally, but nationally.”
At about 27,000 square miles covering parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, the Navajo Nation is one of the largest native reservations in the United States. Approximately 180,000 Navajo (out of a total population of 400,000) live on Diné Bikéyah, or Navajoland. This comes out to a population average of just under seven people per square mile.
Because the Navajo Nation covers such a large area with a comparatively small population, providing adequate communications for 911, voice, and internet access is a real challenge.
