The Charles County Volunteer Firemen’s Association, Inc, and Charles County Association of Emergency Medical Services, Inc. provided useful tips for teaching children, and even adults on how to call 9-11 and provide useful and needed information to the 911 call takers, dispatchers, and first responders.
JACKSON, Mich. (WLNS) — A former 911 dispatcher is suing Jackson County, as well as her former supervisor, claiming there was a sexually hostile work environment during her time there.
Shannon Rutan worked for Jackson County Central Dispatch from 2008 to 2016. In the lawsuit filed earlier this year, she also claims county and her supervisor, Lieutenant Jason Hamman, retaliated against her for making claims of sexual harassment.
The hostility Rutan alleges in her lawsuit started in 2012, and includes numerous examples of comments and innuendo of a sexual nature.
BELL COUNTY, Ky. (WTVQ) – A man has been arrested after authorities say he made threats against a Bell County judge and 911 dispatchers.
According to the Bell County Sheriff’s Office, 47-year-old Charles Lawson called and harassed dispatch several times Monday. He called so many times, a warrant was issued for his arrest.
Springettsbury Township, York County — Tomorrow, York County Commissioners will vote on a $750,000 contract to overhaul the 9-1-1 communications center. While the vote is not finalized, many people seem to feel this is a step in the right direction for an agency struggling for years.
“We are pleased with the route they are going,” said York Fire Chief Chad Deardorff.
By Kristi Wilde, Senior Public Safety Advisor
The FirstNet Authority continues to engage public safety from every discipline to better understand what they need from the FirstNet network. The FirstNet Authority talked with professionals working in emergency communication centers (ECCs)—sometimes called 911 centers or public safety answering points (PSAPs)—at Arizona’s Public Safety Broadband Forum for PSAPs (“Forum”) in Phoenix, Arizona in late August.
The event, hosted by the Arizona Department of Administration, was geared towards understanding how emergency communications professionals in Arizona are using FirstNet today and helping them learn how to integrate FirstNet into their 911 operations. Though voice communications are traditionally constrained to landlines and land mobile radios, ECCs are expanding how they communicate. The FirstNet Authority talked with ECC professionals at the Forum to understand how they are using data to communicate with the public and with responders in the field.
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NEIDA COUNTY – A handful of radio towers went up in Oneida Co. just over ten years ago to improve emergency communications across the Northwoods. The sheriff’s office is now requesting $3.5 million in capital improvement funds to update those systems.
Emergency management says the county’s E911 center needs a sixth dispatch station among a laundry list of other “necessary” changes.
“There’s more cell phones nowadays, people have more access to call 911,” said Lt. Sherri Congleton with the Oneida Co. Sheriff’s Office.
