EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) — The Eau Claire County Communications Center says they are having major issues with people calling 911 and hanging up.
They say this has been a growing problem and can sometimes be a misuse of their resources.
“If we don’t speak to someone, we send an officer
which takes up a significant portion of our officers responding as
well,” said Dena Clark, Manager of Eau Claire Communications Center.
Dispatchers say they have had more than 3,000 hang-up calls this….
In a chilling 911 call, a South Carolina man told dispatchers he had
fatally stabbed his wife and stepdaughter in the driveway of their home,
authorities said.
“I don’t want to admit it,” said the caller, who identified himself as Anthony Lamar Gathers II. “I just killed my wife and my stepdaughter.” ….
In the first of two articles, James Paul Wallis looks at the role that hospital dispatchers play in the complicated issue of helicopter air ambulance ‘shopping’ in the US healthcare system, a practice that has potentially fatal consequences
Wherever a region is served by more than one helicopter air ambulance provider, there is the possibility for helicopter shopping to occur. Writing in a 2008 position paper for the Indiana Association of Air Medical Services (INAAMS), the Association’s President Rex J. Alexander defined helicopter shopping as: “…the practice of calling, in sequence, various operators until an operator agrees to take a flight assignment, without sharing with subsequent operators the reasons the flight was declined by the previously called operators.”
November 26 is the deadline for anyone who wants to serve the public as a Communication Specialist for the New York State Police.
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Applications
for those interested in taking the exam for the job must be postmarked
by the end of the day. There is no online application but the
information and form can be found at http://troopers.ny.gov/Employment.
Mesquite’s new City Council members took the oath of office last week, and two fresh faces join the re-elected members and new mayor. One of the new faces on council is former Mesquite News reporter and city of Mesquite dispatcher Kenny Green.
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I worked for what is now Star Local Media from February 2007 until January 2017. I spent the first year as a photojournalist for the Plano Star Courier and Allen American primarily…
FAIRMONT, W.Va. — A West Virginia county passed a resolution recognizing 911 dispatchers as first responders.
The resolution was signed by the Marion County Commission on Tuesday, according to the WDTV. The text of the resolution states that dispatchers make the same sacrifices as other first responders, such as firefighters, EMS providers and police…
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
