A new software system has upgraded the way Berkeley County S.C., public safety agencies share data and eliminates the duplication that occurred until the deployment of the system last month.
The Knox County Regional Communication Center issued a farewell Thursday afternoon for longtime public safety official Linwood Lothrop.
The center issued a farewell over the radio to all public safety departments and then Lothrop was greeted with a line of police officers, firefighters and other public safety members outside the communications center.
OSAGE COUNTY — The Osage County emergency operations, or 911 center, and the Osage Ambulance District were at odds — each posting subliminal messages on Facebook that appear to insult the other.
KRCG spoke with both sides, though the ambulance district was willing to speak a little more.
The director there, Joshua Krull, provided KRCG with documentation he said shows he’s spent more than….
When the idea of a co-located, meaning shared, 911 facility was first voiced back in 2016, it seemed like the perfect solution to a hard-learned lesson. The floods of 2015 had, in fact, provided a trial run.
When the Blanco River went on its deadly rampage in May of 2015, it forced the county’s telecommunicators to move from the Law Enforcement Center on Uhland Road in San Marcos to the San Marcos Police Department – a location that was also low-lying but far from the worst of the flooding.
Kharley Smith, then the county’s emergency management director, told …
he Joplin Police Department’s emergency communications center is now using a form of technology that allows 911 dispatchers to receive more accurate location data from callers, particularly from those using smartphones.
The program, RapidSOS Clearinghouse, is free to authorized emergency communications centers nationwide. It works by collecting data — primarily the location of the device being used — from iPhones using at least iOS 12 and versions 4.0+ of Android phones, as well as certain apps like Uber, wearable devices and connected homes and cars, and delivering that data directly to dispatchers.
Cheryl Konarski, Joplin’s communications manager, said…
HELENA- The city of Helena looking for information for the implementation of an NG9-1-1 compatible call system after being awarded funding from the State of Montana’s 9-1-1 Grant Program.
In May of 2019, the City of Helena was granted $470,000 for use on their Motorola Call Works System, which, according to the city’s Request for Information, is what they currently use for their Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP).
NG911 is a PSAP system that works to ….
