by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 27, 2019 | Comm Center News
ARMINGTON – County commissioners approved a plan Thursday morning to
bring in staff from Somerset County into the Franklin County Regional
Communications Center to assist over the next couple of weeks.
CL Folsom, the communications director for Franklin County, is out on
leave, according to County Clerk Julie Magoon. The agreement with
Somerset County will bring some combination of Somerset County
Communications Director Michael Smith and Communications Deputy Director
Tammy Barker to the Franklin County dispatch center over the next two
weeks.
The offer for assistance was extended by Somerset County at no cost
after the Sept. 16 explosion on the Farmington Falls Road, Magoon said.
That explosion resulted in the destruction of…..
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by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 27, 2019 | Comm Center News
The new Linn County E-911 Center is now open.
The center,
located at 110 W. Ira St., in Marceline is in the old Saint Francis
Hospital and includes communications operations, meeting rooms, kitchen,
dispatch center, sleeping rooms for dispatchers and a full kitchen.
The
center’s meeting room is used for the month E911 board meetings,
training and can be used as an Emergency Operations Command Center for
Linn County, should the need arise.
Upon completion, the state-of-the-art dispatch center will include…
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by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 27, 2019 | Comm Center News
On a recent night when an earthquake
rattled York County, prompting calls to 911, Dover Township firefighters
overheard dispatchers sending police to a reported house explosion with
fire in their coverage area.
Nine
volunteers at the firehouse jumped up, put on their gear and figured out
what equipment they needed. They pulled out of the station with the
chief’s vehicle, an engine and a tanker.
“We were a mile and a half down the road before we were formally….
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by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 26, 2019 | Comm Center News
When someone calls 911 they are often in distress and may have difficulty describing what is happening around them, but the Edinburg Police Department is hoping to change that by using new technology that makes it easier for dispatchers to communicate.
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 26, 2019 | Comm Center News
After a mother made a frantic 911 call while trapped inside a sinking vehicle with her 5-month-old child in Houston, she is finally meeting the woman who helped save her. As Tropical Storm Imelda inundated Houston, 19-year-old Rachel Cangemi and her baby slid into a flooded creek and their van began sinking. “I thought I was going to die,” she told Inside Edition. Dispatcher Tammy Parker took the 911 call. She asked the worried mother if she could unlock the doors, but Cangemi could not.
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 25, 2019 | Comm Center News
UPDATE: 4:08 a.m. — Campbell County officials have
confirmed that their emergency 911 phone lines have been restored to
those previously affected by the outage.
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CAMPBELL COUNTY, Va (WFXR) — 9-1-1 lines are down again across certain areas of Campbell County.
Residents with phone line service in the 376, 283, 309, and 369 are
advised to use a cell phone to call 9-l-l in an event of an emergency.
Residents can also call the Campbell County Public safety non-emergency number at (434) 332-9574 to report an emergency.
