by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 18, 2019 | Comm Center News
Fortuna Police are warning area residents of a phone scam alleging to be a call from the Social Security Administration.
The caller apparently is spoofing phone numbers, making it appear that the calls are legitimate, when they in fact are not, according to police.
Spoofing is when a legitimate number appears in the victim’s caller ID, but the originating call is not from who they claim it is from.
From reports that FPD has received, the individual calls the targeted victim claiming…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 18, 2019 | Comm Center News
DUKES COUNTY – Due to high, damaging winds and adverse weather
conditions, the Dukes County Regional Emergency Communication Center
lost power in the early morning hours of Thursday, October 17th. Lights
may have gone dark in the center, but dispatchers never lost the ability
to communicate with the public, Police, Fire and EMS. With support from
Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office and through the use of the Martha’s
Vineyard Law Enforcement Council Mobile Command Unit, the Emergency 911
line for Dukes County stayed up throughout the night, fielding reports
of live wires, downed trees, pole fires, flooding and more.
“We lost power, but we never lost communication.” Sheriff Ogden stated. When power went….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 18, 2019 | Comm Center News
The Tioga County 911 emergency communications center will host an
open house Oct. 24 from 1-6 p.m. at the 99 William Farrell Drive
building behind the Tokishi Center, Wellsboro.
The county commissioners issued a proclamation ….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 18, 2019 | Comm Center News
The dispatchers who staff Benton
County’s 911 communications center are on the front lines of the
county’s first responders: If they can’t handle emergency calls in a
timely fashion, it means dangerous delays in getting law officers,
firefighters or paramedics to a scene.
County
voters in the Nov. 5 election face a proposal to create a 911 emergency
dispatch service district for most of the county, to be paid for by an
increase in property taxes. The measure authorizes a rate of 65 cents
per every $1,000 of assessed value, but officials have said they’ll
start the district at 45 cents. At the 45-cent rate, the owner of a
$350,000 home would pay an additional $157.56 each year in taxes.
The money raised, about $3.7 million a year, would pay for additional dispatchers to meet the growing call volume; some of the money would go into a reserve fund for equipment upgrades.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 18, 2019 | Comm Center News
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.
Click here to watch the video above for further details.
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 18, 2019 | Comm Center News
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…
