The city of Indio is making significant strides towards enhancing its public safety infrastructure with the upcoming completion of the new Public Safety Campus. Officials have announced that the project is not only moving ahead of schedule but is also set to bring a major transformation to the city’s emergency response capabilities.
Grant County Judge/Executive Chuck Dills was the chief deputy sheriff when the county merged with Kentucky State Police dispatch in 2005. He admits county law enforcement especially had qualms about the merger, but so did the county itself.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin has appointed Loudoun County Fire and Rescue Emergency Communications Center Manager Patty Turner to the Virginia 9-1-1 Services Board, the department announced Monday.
San Francisco, August 12: The iPhone 14’s Emergency SOS via Satellite feature helped save a family in Maui (an island in Hawaii, US) that was caught in a wildfire spreading across the region. Michael Miraflor, a user on X (formerly Twitter) said that five people related to his brother’s girlfriend were caught in a vehicle in Maui after the wildfires surrounded them. There was no cell service available at their location, so they used Emergency SOS to communicate with first responders.
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.
