by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2019 | Comm Center News
Branch County Commission Chair Ted Gordon believes issues between the
county and the E-911 Board can be resolved. Others are not sure after
the county adopted a new service plan in October.
Tuesday, Gordon and Administrator Bud Norman met with municipal officials.
“It went well. I think we accomplished something livable,” Gordon said.
Municipal members who attended could not be reached Wednesday for comment.
The dispute came to a head when 911 board members proposed….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2019 | Comm Center News
SOUTHINGTON, Ohio (WKBN) – The Warren Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol announced its dispatcher and trooper of the year for 2019.
Dispatcher of the year was given to Kathryn Kringeta, of Champion. She joined Highway Patrol in 2014.
She was awarded for her outstanding service at the Warren Post.
Kevin Brown was named trooper of the year. He joined in 2000 and lives with his wife and four children in Newton Township.
Highway Patrol troopers chose Brown because of his “leadership abilities…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 2, 2019 | Comm Center News
As CBS 2’s Jim Williams reported recently, dispatcher Lauren Trylovich guided Amena Karim through CPR when Karim’s sister became unresponsive. [Video]
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 1, 2019 | Comm Center News
BLUFFDALE — Three-year-old Sawyer Poole is being called a hero for saving her grandmother’s life.
After her grandmother collapsed on Nov. 19, Sawyer told 911 dispatchers to “come quickly.”
“My
Nani is so sick,” Sawyer is heard telling a dispatcher named Joanna,
who keeps the girl on the line for nearly 11 minutes until first
responders arrive.
“We thought that something like this would never happen in a million years,” Sawyer’s mother, Alisha Poole, said Tuesday.
In a recording of the 911 call, the dispatcher asks….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 1, 2019 | Comm Center News
EFFINGHAM, S.C.
— The Florence County Emergency Management Division will be ringing in
the new year with some enhancements to the county’s 911 system — at
least one of them is already in use by several pizza-delivery
restaurants and ride-hailing businesses.
The
most “visible” of the upgrades will allow communications officers to
view the location of callers in real time with enough accuracy that
they’ll be able to tell officers in which corner of a house the caller
is located.
Mitch Fulmore, 911/Central Dispatch manager, said….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 1, 2019 | Comm Center News
CHICAGO (CBS) — CBS Chicago is proud to be a sponsor of the Red Cross Heroes Breakfast – an event honoring those who go above to help those in need.
This year, a woman from South Shore is nominating Lauren Trylovich, the 911 dispatcher who answered her call after her sister became unresponsive.
The two met recently with our cameras rolling.
As CBS 2’s Jim Williams reported in October, Amena Karim reached out to us…
