A Nebraska senator says he has concerns about the state’s infrastructure after two separate 911 outages disrupted critical emergency services for 12 hours each.
While the Oregon Road and Gray fires were ripping through Spokane County, a team of dispatchers in Colville were coordinating air and ground resources to the blazes.
The Northeast Washington Interagency Communications Center dispatches state and federal agencies, including Washington State Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, to wildfires burning in the 10 northeastern Washington counties.
The minutes a 911 caller spends on the phone with an operator are often filled with frenzy and uncertainty. Attempts to describe an emergency can easily leave out key details that would help first responders know exactly what they’re responding to. A handful of North Texas cities have introduced new technological elements to their 911 service designed to make their emergency responses more specialized, efficient and effective.
NEW HANOVER COUNTY – Nearly a dozen calls from a recent shooting shared vital information with the New Hanover County 911 center.
“There were shots fired, there’s a woman tied up,” one caller said.
A North Texas 911 center is offering a service during emergency calls that no other agency is offering.
Dispatchers at the North Texas Emergency Communications Center are not only ready to listen to your call for help, but they are prepared to watch your emergency as it’s happening.
