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.
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 25, 2019 | Comm Center News
Portland — A man who witnessed an unprovoked attack on another man in Southwest Portland said he had to beg a dispatcher to send help. This link will take you to the audio of that call. It is well worth listening to. The question I have is was this dispatcher simply follow police department policy?
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by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 25, 2019 | Comm Center News
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) — A California Highway Patrol officer in
Chowchilla signed off for the last time Tuesday and it was truly a
family affair.
Officer Ed Castaneda retired after spending more than two decades patrolling Valley roads and helping to keep drivers safe.
What
made the radio sign-off even more special is that his daughter, who is a
CHP dispatcher, was on the other end with one final message.
The department posted a video of the “final 10-10” on Facebook.
Castaneda’s daughter can be heard….
