A Calhoun County dispatcher has won the 911 Telecommunicator of the Year award for the state of South Carolina. The award was presented at the NENA/APCO conference in Myrtle Beach on Oct. 18. The award was presented to Amy Combs, telecommunicator and assistant supervisor of Calhoun County. Combs is a 911 dispatcher who has been employed by for Calhoun County for 18 years. Combs has been promoted…
RapidSOS, a New York-based emergency technology company, and 911inform, a cloud-based notification and security management platform for buildings and municipalities, announced its partnership to connect smart buildings with 9-1-1 dispatchers during a crisis.
Through this partnership, RapidSOS-connected public safety agencies will be able to communicate…
NEW CUMBERLAND — Hancock County dispatchers were formally honored at Thursday’s county commission meeting.
At the last meeting, 911 Dispatch Center Director Tracy Lemley announced she had received a letter from the Brooke County Sheriff’s Office regarding the professionalism of her dispatchers during Aug. 14 shooting incident. The letter specifically honored dispatcher Aaron Beaumont for his work.
Lemley read the letter during the meeting. The letter from the Brooke County Sheriff Deputy Shane Siranovic read, “I noted the calm and professional demeanor…
BOCA RATON – The parents of a restaurant worker fatally shot as he drove home on Interstate 95 in February 2018 have sued the city of West Palm Beach, saying a dispatcher didn’t do enough to deter the alleged gunman.
A lawsuit filed Monday argues that when Hugo Selva called after shooting another man in West Palm Beach on Feb. 6, 2018, the dispatcher, who’d been on the job for 30 years, told him to go to police headquarters and alerted detectives, but she did not follow up.
Hours later, in the predawn hours of Feb. 7, authorities have said…
[…]Judge Chick made mention of the need for the court to start looking into an additional funding source for the Emergency Communications Center (911) due to a drop in landline use. The county currently receives a fee from every landline in Logan County that is earmarked for the 911 center.
Chick said he had spoken with Greg Hale, Director of Logan Telephone about the Co-op’s recent decision to provide internet service without a landline. Chick said he was told over 600 landlines have been dropped…
Over 50 law enforcement and other emergency agencies came to Stuart last week to assist with an officer-involved shooting, but the first people who responded to those injured weren’t made visible by flashing lights or sirens.
Guthrie County Dispatchers Amy Cleveland and Paula Martinson were working on October 17th when they received the call that officers had been shot at about 10:43 p.m. The two of them worked to get responding agencies to the scene to transport the officers to Des Moines hospitals…
