ORLANDO, Fla. — Law enforcement officers aren’t the only public servants working hard to keep Central Florida safe.
Orlando police Chief Eric Smith stopped by the Emergency Communications Center Friday night to thank dispatchers for their hard work taking countless calls daily.
The only female FDNY manager in the ongoing ageism lawsuit against Fire Commissioner Laura Kavanagh was cast at a disciplinary hearing last week as an “entitled” employee “who went rogue” and began firing off unprofessional emails to department heads.
But Carla Murphy, who for nearly three decades has managed FDNY Emergency Medical Service’s computer aided dispatch system, claims she’s a model staffer and was only hit with disciplinary charges after she questioned several dangerous moves made to the system that were authorized by Kavanagh and Deputy Commissioner JonPaul Augier.
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. (WCAX) – Flood cleanup and recovery continues in Middlebury following last week’s deluge, and it has local officials working in close quarters.
Wireless carriers continue to improve their ability to provide 911 centers with more location—including vertical Z-axis information—but the FCC continues to hope that carriers will be able to provide a dispatchable location with emergency calls, an FCC official said this week during the APCO 2023 event in Nashville, Tenn.
ROCKLAND — Put public safety chiefs in a room together with a critical problem to solve, such as the demise of the county emergency dispatch center, and they won’t leave until a viable action plan is in place.
The state legislature set aside a special fund in the last session to help the transition, including in Benton County. Sheriff Troy Heck says the facility is going from analog to digital. “So, instead of having 911 call flow over telephone lines, we’re now going to be using a computerized network that is going to move the calls from your telephone, essentially, to the public safety answering point, the PSAP.”
