RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — If you ever find yourself in an emergency, you now have a new option to ask for help and it doesn’t involve calling anyone.
Raleigh-Wake Emergency Communications is now accepting pictures and videos sent via text to 911.
Emergency Communications Director Dominick Nutter said the enhanced service went live about six months ago…
CLARK COUNTY — Another person in the Miami Valley was jailed for making unnecessary 911 calls, a Clark County man who was barking like a dog at one point during numerous calls Tuesday to dispatchers.
Earlier this week, a Washington Twp. woman was accused of making nearly 80 911 calls in recent weeks. News Center 7’s Jenna Lawson listened to the Clark County 911 calls, during which the man repeatedly curses at 911 dispatchers and never answers questions…
Horry County’s public safety departments need more than $10 million in additional staff, equipment, raises and facilities so officials can maintain services for a rapidly growing population, according to county projections.
County staff relayed that message last month during county council’s budget retreat, and those calls will only grow louder in the coming months as council members hammer out their spending plan for the next fiscal year.
“We can’t continue the same level of service if we continue to deal with more growth…
It was a busy year for local dispatchers and the responders they directed to calls for service in the county.
A total of 15,055 calls for service — which includes anything from routine police activity to emergency fire and ambulance calls — were processed by the Appanoose County Law Center dispatchers. Of those, 9,582 were to Centerville addresses.
The Centerville Police Department’s officers put 2,419 miles on their squad cars transporting inmates to…
The woman who was hiding in a closet during a deadly shooting in Mecca Township Sunday was talking with a Trumbull County 911 Dispatcher as the incident unfolded.
“You could tell immediately with her voice that she was genuinely terrified,” Theodore Harrell said, a dispatcher with the Trumbull County 911 Center.
The call came on Sunday evening just before 9 p.m.
Harrell says he quickly worked to calm the woman down…
(ANCHORAGE) – Two major initiatives, Wireless 9-1-1 and consolidation of emergency communication services, are underway to greatly improve law enforcement services to all Alaskans. The Department of Public Safety (DPS) is providing a one-year courtesy heads up to telecommunication companies statewide that a formal request for the implementation of Wireless 9-1-1 will occur. Under Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules …
