by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 29, 2019 | Comm Center News
Forest County’s jail control and dispatch center is a room full of windows. It views cell blocks with no windows.
Screens flash, sirens buzz, and the intercom beeps.
“It’s professional multitasking, or, as we like to call it, controlled chaos,” said Forest County Jail Administrator Josh Bradley with a chuckle. “It’s like a small city in here, and we’re responsible for every aspect of it.”
The jail’s capacity is 88 inmates…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 29, 2019 | Comm Center News
I loved your recent insert recognizing our local first responders. I was, however, dismayed with the failure by The Bakersfield Californian as well as the leadership of our local agencies who failed to recognize the very first person to respond to an emergency: the dispatchers who answer those calls.
The only person to recognize dispatchers was Lavonne Hall who correctly acknowledged the highly trained Emergency Medical Dispatchers at Hall Ambulance (“National First Responders Day: We come together to assist one patient at a time,” Oct. 27). Our Bakersfield City Fire Department…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 28, 2019 | Comm Center News
KALAMAZOO, Mich. — 911 dispatch centers across the country are understaffed, face high burnout rates among dispatchers, and dispatchers can experience post-traumatic stress disorder, according to the National Emergency Number Association, which makes hiring a challenge.
The Kalamazoo County Consolidated Dispatch Authority has shortage of 16 employees, according to executive director Jeff Troyer. The dispatch authority combined five 911 dispatch…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 28, 2019 | Comm Center News
The territory has never had the same 9-1-1 service most other Canadian residents take for granted, relying instead on local numbers for police, fire, and ambulance in each community.
Work to introduce the service began in 2017. A senior manager overseeing 9-1-1’s introduction delivered a final presentation to Yellowknife city councillors on Monday, a week before its go-live date.
Eleanor Young, deputy minister of municipal and community affairs, confirmed…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 28, 2019 | Comm Center News
MONTREAL — Urgences-Sante has admitted to a ‘lack of professionalism’ on the part of two paramedics who responded to a 911 call last month.
Linda Jones Dion filed a formal complaint after it took nearly three hours to transport her husband to the hospital.
The incident happened on Sept. 21, when the long-term care residence in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue where Jones-Dion’s husband Claude Dion lives, called 9-1-1 to take the man, who has dementia and prostate cancer, to the hospital…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 28, 2019 | Comm Center News
FRANKLIN, Ind. – A bill is making its way through Congress that would recognize 911 dispatchers as first responders. It is called the 911 SAVES Act and it is getting a lot of support from a dispatch center in Johnson County.
U.S. Representatives Norma J. Torres (D-CA), a former 911 dispatcher, and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), a former FBI Special Agency, introduced the bipartisan bill. Right now, a federal database by the Office of Management and Budget classifies 911 dispatchers…
