by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 5, 2019 | Comm Center News
HANOVER TOWNSHIP, LUZERNE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — We start tonight with word of major upgrades coming to the Luzerne County 911 Center.
Some say long-overdue upgrades. The current radio system which has caused safety concerns for years will be replaced. Luzerne County 9-1-1 is moving into the digital age when it comes to its radio system. County council approved the $24 million upgrades. First responders say the upgrades will help them save lives.
“This will mean we have a radio system that’s reliable, it will work…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 5, 2019 | Comm Center News
For 911 dispatcher Lynette Starnes, the most chilling calls are the ones that come in from locations she can’t track.
“A stabbing, a homicide, a medical aid, we’re trained to get through that stuff,” she said. “But if I don’t know where you’re at, we can’t help you, and that is my personal biggest stress.”
Starnes has learned to weather the pressures of the job after more than three decades as a dispatcher for the San Rafael Police Department…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 5, 2019 | Comm Center News
The Ohio State Highway Patrol Canfield Post has announced its 2019 trooper and dispatcher of the year.
Trooper John Lamm has been named the 2019 trooper of the year, and Brooke Boley has been named 2019 dispatcher of the year.
Trooper Lamm was selected in recognition of outstanding service during 2019 at the Canfield Post.
Fellow Canfield Post Troopers chose Trooper Lamm based on leadership abilities, professional ethics, courteous treatment of others, enthusiastic work attitude…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 5, 2019 | Comm Center News
Only 8% of Americans survive cardiac arrest outside a hospital, but that percentage could increase significantly if bystanders recognize cardiac arrest and perform simple lifesaving tasks, a UVA Health physician says.
UVA emergency medicine physician William J. Brady, MD, co-authored an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that highlights a few steps anyone without extensive medical training can do to help.
[…] Albemarle County Fire Rescue, Charlottesville Fire Department, the Charlottesville-Albemarle-UVA Emergency Communications Center and UVA Health are working together to launch this tool.
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 5, 2019 | Comm Center News
AUSTIN, Texas (KCBD) – Gov. Greg Abbott has re-appointed Amherst Mayor Clinton Sawyer to the Commission on State Emergency Communications. This puts him in charge of administering the state 9-1-1 service and poison control programs.
Sawyer is both the mayor of Amherst and an agent for Texas Farm Bureau Insurance, according to the Governor’s Office. Along with those positions, he also serves as a board member for the South Plains Association of Governments.
He is a graduate of West Texas …
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 5, 2019 | Comm Center News
PORTLAND, Maine — A 911 call that prompted a two-day search for a sailboat off Maine was made by a sailor who was cold and seasick less than 24 hours after heading to sea, Coast Guard officials said.
The crew of the 40-foot “Dove” eventually reported that all was fine as the sailboat traveled off New York’s Long Island on Nov. 18. A day later, the three crew members abandoned the sailboat after it became disabled off Virginia. They were rescued by a cargo ship…
