by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 7, 2019 | Comm Center News
A 911 dispatch supervisor in South Florida was watching a movie on Netflix while a caller tried to get help after someone shot her car’s windshield.
According to the Associated Press, an internal affairs investigation found Julie Vidaud was watching “I Am Mother” during the June 9 call.
There was a 34-minute delay in the call being dispatched to an officer, according to records.
The victim said she called back 16 minutes later before finally driving herself…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 7, 2019 | Comm Center News
BROWN COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) – Brown County emergency dispatchers received more than 500 calls Wednesday morning as drivers crashed and slid off roads during a snowy commute.
“It’s going to be a two-vehicle accident, head-on. Unknown injuries at this time. Unknown entrapment.”
“172 eastbound at Webster for a vehicle accident. It is a truck that is flipped over.”
“You have a red, full-sized pickup that spun out and struck the median at mile marker 170.”
We’re told dispatchers answered 536 calls…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 7, 2019 | Comm Center News
The commissioners met with former commissioner and current candidate Irvin Dasher last week regarding the new 9-1-1 plan to have a 9-1-1 call center in the county. Dasher asked what the projected costs for such a facility would be, why the county needs…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 7, 2019 | Comm Center News
MORGAN COUNTY, Ala. (WAFF) – In Morgan County, there’s now more than one way to contact 911.
You can call, you can video chat with them and now, you can text.
The new feature works like any normal text you would send.
You send the message to 911, say you need help and give them your address.
It’s important to list your address…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 7, 2019 | Comm Center News
TEHACHAPI, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Adventist Health announced at least four Tehachapi-area residents have been hospitalized in the last two weeks after suffering from carbon monoxide poisoning incurred after improperly heating their homes during ongoing Public Safety Power Shutoffs.
A pregnant woman was poisoned after heating her home with her oven, and another individual was found passed out in their home after starting up an emergency generator inside their…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 6, 2019 | Comm Center News
When the message arrived from the Alaskan wilderness, it was simple, brief, and urgent: tipped raft. The two paddlers who sent it had just almost drowned, and their food and gear had disappeared downriver. But they had one thing going for them, a small, handheld emergency beacon they could use to share their location and ask for help. It sent a signal more than 3,000 miles south, to Montgomery, Texas, where…
