Albemarle County wants to shift from a regional emergency management coordinator to a county-specific staff member.
Currently, the Charlottesville-UVa-Albemarle Office of Emergency Management is a division within the regional Emergency Communications Center and is proportionally funded by the City of Charlottesville, the University of Virginia and Albemarle.
County staff are recommending… READ MORE
County staff say overtime has “exploded” at the Carroll County Emergency Communications Center and more people are needed to take 911 calls.
One county commissioner at Thursday’s board meeting pushed for the county to hire more staff immediately, but the rest of the board would rather wait to see what funding becomes available.
At full operating capacity, the emergency communications center has 32 staff members, according to Scott Campbell … READ MORE
As a public employee, I knew it would not be appropriate to write a letter to the editor before the election, but if I could have, this is what I would have said:
It’s hard to describe the life of a 911 dispatcher on paper. We work 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, nights, weekends, and holidays. We are always here for you, for anyone, for everyone in need of emergency help in Benton County… READ MORE
There are more than 6,000 dispatch points throughout the United States, and this vital emergency service is now under constant threat, because hackers are infiltrating dispatch centers and rerouting calls away from dispatchers.
Malware and spear-phishing attacks impact emergency service dispatch centers without warning. There’s no siren going off to alert a dispatcher about a problem at their workstation, so it might seem impossible to fight back… READ MORE
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (WJW) — A photo of a police dispatcher cuddling with a cat at the shelter is quickly going viral.
According to the Bloomington Police Department in Indiana, Matt Smith stopped by the shelter this week to take some photos for the “Furever Friends” project. While there, he met five-year-old Nevada who has been there for nearly 100 days.
“We weren’t sure if she liked strangers and we didn’t want to push her out of her comfort…
HILLSBORO, OR (KPTV) – A new 911 dispatch center in now under construction in Washington County.
Police, firefighters, and emergency responders were all there to celebrate the groundbreaking in Hillsboro Thursday afternoon.
The center will feature technology to boost communication flow, allowing first-responders to react even quicker.
It’s even being built to withstand a major earthquake… READ MORE
