by ECC Editor | Feb 26, 2020 | Comm Center News
KILLINGLY – State police are searching for the driver of truck who damaged sections of the Quinebaug Valley Emergency Communications Center’s recently upgraded parking lot this week.
Troopers on Sunday were called to the 1249 Hartford Pike, East Killingly, home of the emergency dispatch center for a vandalism report. State police said a late 1990s Ford F150 or similar type truck drove into the center’s parking lot and began driving recklessly, doing burnouts and doughnuts… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly will look at an ordinance at their meeting on Tuesday that would cover the cost of funding three new borough dispatch positions. The total cost according to the ordinance would be approximately $345,000 on an annual basis.
In a memo to the assembly from Borough Finance Director Brandi Harbaugh, funds are needed to reimburse the borough’s E911 division for the overtime costs it has
incurred and to fund three new positions to fill the vacancies left unfilled by the state.
by ECC Editor | Feb 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
Some 12,000 9-1-1 dispatchers, social workers, health and hospital workers, nurses, park workers, janitors, clerks and roads and maintenance workers — among others — represented by Service Employees International Union Local 521 plan to go on strike Friday unless the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors intervenes, the union said in a statement Sunday.
“The county is proposing eliminating the wage increase for June 2020 that they included in their ‘last, best and final’ offer of 2019,” said Janet Diaz, a patient services clerk at Valley Medical Center, in Sunday’s statement. “This is not only illegal, but a deliberate attack on the livelihoods of
by ECC Editor | Feb 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
SAN ANGELO — The San Angelo Fire Department will perform a test of the emergency alert system at 10 a.m. Tuesday by phone calls.
On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the alerts will be sent out over landlines using reverse 9-1-1 and will also be posted on The City of San Angelo Facebook and Twitter pages.
When activated by the fire department, alerts will be sent to every cellphone within the area designated – whether a neighborhood or the entire county, according to a news release… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Feb 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
MEDFORD, Ore. — Friends, family and law enforcement extended family are mourning the death of a longtime Oregon State Police Dispatcher Dina Rudesheim who died earlier this month.
Law enforcement in Jackson County took to the police airwaves to honor her with an end of watch call about 3:16 p.m. Saturday on the same day as her funeral… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Feb 25, 2020 | Comm Center News
OWENSBORO, Ky. (2/24/20) — Owensboro-Daviess County Central Dispatch has implemented a new technology designed to improve notification of fire incidents to the Owensboro and Daviess County fire departments as well as Daviess County Volunteer Fire Departments.
Officials reported Implementing the technology is all about timing. Currently, during the 911 call, the call-taker telecommunicator will answer the call and… READ MORE
