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 ….
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.
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…
