by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 11, 2019 | Comm Center News
Murfreesboro, TN (Rutherford County)–Chris and Lacey Ray of Lynchburg,
Tennessee were reunited with a medic team from Rutherford County
Emergency Medical Services (RCEMS) and a Rutherford County Dispatcher
this week just a month after the team delivered their baby boy in the
back of an ambulance.
Lacey was en route to Centennial Medical
Center on the interstate when her contractions began to get closer
together. Her husband Chris called 9-1-1 and explained the situation.
Medics were dispatched to the scene and when they arrived, Lacey was
beginning to feel the baby’s head.
With Lacey’s being a high-risk pregnancy, medics suggested ….
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 10, 2019 | Comm Center News
The Cambridge Post of the Ohio Highway Patrol (OHP) has named Trooper Keith Roe as the 2019 Post Trooper of the Year and selected Post Dispatcher Nicole Wheeler for the 2019 Ohio State Highway Patrol Telecommunications award at the Cambridge Dispatch Center.
“Being nominated as the trooper/dispatcher of the year is one of the greatest award nominations because it comes from their peers,” Post Commander, Lt. Melanie Appleman said.
According to Appleman, the post’s supervisors, troopers and dispatchers…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 10, 2019 | Comm Center News
MOREHEAD CITY — A County Emergency Services telecommunicator got an early Christmas present Monday when she met a mother and the baby the dispatcher helped deliver.
Brittany Stapleton, 21, had no idea when she reported for work Oct. 29 in the county’s emergency dispatch center she would talk Briana Godette of Beaufort through delivering her daughter, Kaislyn Godette.
Ms. Stapleton said when she received the 911 call, “I took a deep
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 10, 2019 | Comm Center News
STODDARD COUNTY, Mo. (KFVS) – 2019 has been a record year for first responders in Stoddard County who are earning more awards for saving lives. Their success is in part thanks to new technology and training involved with the launch of a Computer Aided Dispatch system in the county.
This year new tax revenue allowed Stoddard County 911 services to switch over to the CAD system run by Zuecher Technologies…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 10, 2019 | Comm Center News
ELDON – Four city workers in Eldon are left in the dark after they have been notified by the city that they will not have a job come January 1, 2020.
The City of Eldon cut three full-time firefighters and one dispatcher, citing budget cuts. City leaders have not commented on why the employment moves were made. At the end of the meeting Daphney Partridge, Ward One alderman made a brief statement.
“None of the decisions that were made, were made lightly. They have been very considered and very deliberate, I assure you,” she said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 10, 2019 | Comm Center News
True community policing includes working with the community and not just doing things to them. Everyone who works in public safety can keep this in mind while doing their jobs, including 911 Dispatch.
On a panel about technology versus the human aspect of policing, former Society of Police Futurists International (PFI) President Joseph Schafer, Ph.D. stated, “Policing is still the most effective when it is done with people not to people.” The panelists…
