EDINBURG – A virtual first responder system is up and running in Edinburg.
Police now have the capability to live stream with 9-1-1 callers.
Chief Cesar Torres says the city is the only one in Texas to have the system and the third in the country.
He explained when someone in Edinburg calls 9-1-1, they’ll receive a link via text message.
ROCK SPRING, Ga. — In an emergency situation when lives are on the line, seconds can make all the difference.
That’s why Walker County Schools recently invested state school safety funds to enhance its Incident Management System. The school system now is the first in Georgia to fully integrate dynamic mapping of each school, push-button intercom notifications and closed-circuit cameras with the county’s 911 dispatch center. In the event of a crisis on a school campus in Walker County, dispatchers will be…
A major step has been taken towards a more efficient emergency response service to north-central B.C.
At its monthly board meeting yesterday (Oct. 17), the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George (RDFFG) agreed to ‘moving forward’ on borrowing $3 million to improve the region’s 9-1-1 service, which is more than half of the project’s $5 million budget.
This comes in loom of the RDFFG’s completion of the Alternate Approval Process…
CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. — A couple in Florida is thankful for a 911 dispatcher who helped them to deliver one of their twin babies over the phone.
Brianna Springer’s due date was in December. But on Monday she went into labor, she told WFTS. “I had no idea they were coming so soon,” she said.
Springer’s fiancé, Blayne Guest, called 911. On the other line was Phillip Stuart.
“He told me I would be delivering the baby…
Two public-safety leaders were appointed to the board of the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.
The new members include Karima Holmes, director, Office of Unified Communications, Washington, D.C. She supervises all of the district’s emergency 9-1-1 and basic city service 3-1-1 call activities. Holmes led efforts to prepare the district’s dispatch centers to accept next-generation 9-1-1 (NG 9-1-1).
In addition, the board added Matt Slinkard, executive assistant chief of police, Houston…
In many cases, dispatcher jobs are considered administrative and not life-saving.
ASPEN, Colo. — On average, 911 dispatchers in Pitkin County take about 1,200 calls a month. Many of those emergencies require life-saving skills before the first responders even arrive, according to Dispatch Commander Brett Loeb.
“We’re often called the first, first responder,” he said.
Across the country, dispatcher jobs are defined as administrative, not life-saving. There’s a bill in Congress called the 911 Safety Act…
