by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 17, 2019 | Comm Center News
When it comes to helping others, Rick Grandinetti has shown he won’t hesitate.
A 20-year member of the Bradford Township Volunteer Fire Department and a dispatcher with the county for over a decade, Grandinetti is also a member and past president of the Kinzua Chapter of ABATE (Alliance of Bikers Aimed Toward Education). On Saturday, this community will have a chance to show their support in return.
In July, Grandinetti received a life-altering diagnosis…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 17, 2019 | Comm Center News
Pitkin County is elevating the status of its 911 dispatchers to first responders in a move that outpaces a similar effort on the national level.
“We couldn’t wait for the bill that is stalled in Congress to give our dispatchers the job classification of First Responders that they have earned and deserve,” Emergency Dispatch 911 Commander Brett Loeb said in a press release announcing the reclassification. “Emergency dispatchers are every bit as critical in managing a crisis as our law…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 16, 2019 | Comm Center News
The Lyon County Emergency Communications Center will be hosting a
training, “Survival Skills for Dispatchers” on Thursday and Friday.
This training will be brought to Emporia by Rescue 1 Colorado and will be held in the Lyon County Sheriff’s Department basement.
This
valuable training focuses on 911 dispatchers, who consistently have the
potential to experience PTSD through call-taking. Students will be
provided with tools to recognize potential issues as well as ways to
work toward a healthy mental health status. Rescue 1 also offers
training courses fitted to other first responder disciplines.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 16, 2019 | Comm Center News
A week after the sometimes deadly combination of Washington, DC’s 911
center and Metrorail’s operations center took 17-minutes to send DC
firefighters to a train collision, the two agencies teamed up for
another botched emergency response. Just like October 7’s train crash at the Farragut West Metro Station,
the response yesterday (Monday) evening to a person who fell on the
tracks at the Waterfront Metro Station featured a significantly delayed
dispatch, the failure to relay important information in a timely manner
and an initial dispatch that didn’t send the appropriate apparatus for
the emergency.
This time, 15-minutes were lost before the proper help was dispatched by DC’s Office of Unified Communications (DC911 or OUC). To illustrate how bad this was…..
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 16, 2019 | Comm Center News
The Fond du Lac County Communications Center will be saying farewell to a longtime member of their staff in the coming days. Dispatcher Frank Quick will be retiring from the dispatch center on Sunday, after 33-and-a-half years of service as a 9-1-1 dispatcher. County Communications and Emergency Management Director Bobbi Hicken tells us that Quick will be missed in the dispatch center. “He just is a wonderful person, has worked very hard and is finally hanging up his headset and going on to retirement,” Hicken said. “He was one of my training officers, he taught me everything I know – it’s going to be a big void to fill, but we are extremely happy for him.” An open house will be held at ….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 16, 2019 | Comm Center News
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – A former Orange County Fire
Rescue battalion chief who was demoted three ranks and forced to take a
$20,000 pay cut last year following an investigation into having
inappropriate relations with a 911 dispatcher could soon be back in the
same position.
Darien Butler admitted to an investigator that he had sexual relations with Kimberly Noe while on the clock.
Investigators uncovered ….
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