by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 24, 2019 | Comm Center News
ROGERSVILLE — As of Wednesday
afternoon, all staff members at the Hawkins Co. Emergency Communications
District’s E-911 dispatch center have been re-certified to handle
Emergency Medical Dispatch calls, and the center was again dispatching
those calls.
The two days of intense, on-site training — including training a staff member to keep track of and oversee future training needs — were conducted by Dorothy Cave, RPL, NREMT, the EMD Program Manager for the Daytona Beach, Florida-based APCO, the firm that handles the center’s certified training needs, along with a full audit of all of the center’s training records, at a cost to the ECD….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 23, 2019 | Comm Center News
ROGERSVILLE — Questions surrounding
the Emergency Medical Dispatching certifications of several Hawkins Co.
Emergency Communications District dispatchers resulted this week in all
staff having to be re-certified by an onsite instructor, and a full
training audit of all staff members, because more than half were said to
be non-compliant.
That
training, and an on-site training records audit, will cost the county
more than $8,000 and could have possible legal ramifications should
questions arise about medical calls that were dispatched by a person who
was non-certified at the time.
At an emergency meeting of the HCECD on Sunday afternoon, Nov. 17, 2019, Chairman Michael Herrell read….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 23, 2019 | Comm Center News
There’s more proof this (Wednesday) afternoon the 911 center in the
Nation’s Capital is incapable of performing its core mission of sending
the right help to the right location in a timely manner. In today’s
incident, DC Fire & EMS Department Engine 1 attempted to get two
additional engine companies and a battalion chief to assist with a
natural gas leak. Amid much confusion at the Office of Unified
Communications (OUC or 911 center), it took dispatchers approximately
seven minutes to alert the additional companies.
The radio traffic (see timeline below) shows, once again, OUC can’t promptly send help and that ….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 23, 2019 | Comm Center News
A judge has ruled that Douglas County is not liable for damages in a horrific case of domestic violence in which a woman was assaulted by her ex-boyfriend after he fatally shot her two brothers, and it took 40 minutes for 911 to pinpoint the location in west Omaha.
Julie Edwards sued the county for damages from the 2016 assault by Kenneth Clark. He attacked her after shooting her brothers, John and Jason Edwards, as they were removing her possessions from Clark’s house. John Edwards survived long enough to call 911…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 23, 2019 | Comm Center News
SHELBY TOWNSHIP, Mich. – It’s been a tough week for first responders in Metro Detroit and Saturday a group was honored for their life-saving actions.
A group of Shelby Township firefighters and a dispatcher were recognized for keeping a man alive through a heart attack. That man’s daughter was also honored for making all the right calls.
“Kind of speechless about it,” Mike Redford said.
Redford, 70, went into cardiac arrest…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 23, 2019 | Comm Center News
Luke Wright, 24, who worked in for the East of England Ambulance Service (EEAS) in Norwich, died on Sunday, November 10.
He is one of three members of the EEAS who have died in the past two weeks.
Following the deaths EEAS staff are being offered support.
In memory of Mr Wright, his family have set up a JustGiving page to raise £3,500 towards his funeral…
