PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — Tuesday, Fitch & Associates LLC presented a five-year study to Peoria City Council. Consultants compiled five years of data from 911 calls along with Fire and Advanced Medical Transport system information.
From their findings, they created recommendations to make the city’s emergency responses more efficient…
February 14, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was publicly notified by the National Emergency Address Database (NEAD) administrator, NEAD LLC, that the NEAD had been fully decommissioned and would not be made available to the public safety community.
NEAD was originally envisioned in the Roadmap for Improving E911 Location Accuracy…
Alexandria, VA – On February 14, the wireless industry notified the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that it has abandoned the National Emergency Address Database (NEAD). The NEAD was established to help 9-1-1 professionals and other emergency responders locate wireless 9-1-1 callers indoors by supporting the delivery of dispatchable location information (meaning the street address plus apartment, office number or other information needed to find a caller). Given that the industry has not announced testing of other methods for delivering dispatchable locations for 9-1-1 calls, this announcement represents a setback for 9-1-1 location accuracy…
The Polk County Commission decided as 2019 was coming to a close to spend a big chunk of money in an effort to ensure that 911 radio communications would work smoothly in the future.
The unanimous vote at the end of 2019 to approve a contract with Motorola for new towers and a whole new P-25 mission critical public safety communications system along with handheld radios, links to Cobb County’s core and new towers to improve coverage across the county brings with it…
Podcast interview about what it’s really like to be a 9-1-1 Dispatcher
WEST DES MOINES — You learn something new every day, and today that new fact for some of us is that 911 dispatchers aren’t recognized as first responders.
Dispatchers sometimes hear the worst of the worst.
“Things that you hear are not normal things people would hear,” said Jessica Frunzar, a training coordinator with Westcom Emergency Communications.
“You hear the child crying in the background because his parents are fighting….
