(Editors Note; I am posting this story because of the “lessons learned” on how a average call and trying to do the right thing can go wrong.)
YOUNGSTOWN — A medical alert call button can be a lifeline for a person
who can’t reach a phone in an emergency, but what if a murderer answers
the door and tells the emergency medical technicians res-ponding that
everything is fine?
The question isn’t hypothetical.
A Mahoning County Common Pleas Court jury was seated Monday to decide
if the ambulance company that responded to Erika Huff’s home Nov. 6,
2015, should be held liable for just that scenario. The ambulance
company’s lawyer, though, maintains the emergency medical technicians
had no right to insist on coming into the house and no reason to suspect
they ought to.
Huff was murdered and her mother badly beaten that night by now-death
row inmate Lance Hundley, convicted in May 2018 of aggravated murder,
attempted murder, felonious assault and two counts of aggravated arson.
There is scheduled fiber maintenance to be performed on September 12
between 12:01 AM and 3:00 AM which will effect 9-1-1 telephone landline
communications in the Brown County area.
The communications provider will be working on a fiber cable near
Russell, Minnesota and moving it to make room for bridge work to be
performed on State Highway 91. This work will take between 10 minutes
and up to 3 hours to complete.
(Editors Note: Back in the day, as they say, there where requirements in many states to have clear diverse routing for 911 circuits. This is a clear example of why it is important. Diverse routing isn’t just another cable pair or fiber strand. It is physically a different route. Does your 911 system have diverse routing to protect your ability to take calls? For more info...)
Calling 9-1-1 in June was scary for Connor Sullivan, 14, and his sister, Molly, who’s 11.
Two
times over summer break, their dad felt really sick at home as he
experienced complications from triple-bypass heart surgery.
Connor called the emergency service June 5; Molly called June 10.
“At the time it was very
nerve-wracking,” said Connor, a ninth-grader at Cheyenne Mountain High
School. “Now, it just feels good.”
Connor
and Molly, a sixth-grader at Skyway Elementary School, were recognized
Tuesday for being “9-1-1 Heroes,” at an assembly at Skyway in Cheyenne
Mountain School District 12.
BAD AXE – The Huron County Board of Commissioners moved to deny a
grievance filled by the county’s 911 dispatchers at this week’s meeting.
The grievance against Huron County alleges the county did
not administer job analysis questionnaires (JAQ’s), a tool used to
evaluate job classifications, which could affect potential wage
increases.
Dispatchers Ward Carter and Kendra Berg brought the
grievance before the board of commissioners in August with Wanye
Beerbower of the Police Officers Association of Michigan speaking on
their behalf.
BOUNTIFUL, Utah (KUTV) — When Bountiful dispatch supervisor Brenna Dearden looked out her window on the night of August 29, she could see the flames on the mountain east of the city. KUTV
Hundreds of 911 callers were reporting the fire racing toward homes.
“The scene was spreading before our eyes, so send everybody,” Dearden said. “We were in for a big, bad, long night.”
It
was a long night and long few days for dispatchers and other first
responders in Davis County as they extinguished the fire and helped
three families cope with the complete loss of their homes to the Gun Range Fire.
SHERMAN, Tex. (KXII)
Right now, people in Grayson, Fannin and Cooke counties can text 9-1-1
for dispatch in the case of an emergency. By 2023, new technologies will
make it even easier.
Beth Eggar, a Public Safety Planner with the Texoma Council
of Governments said that the only difference is that right now, you
will have to send them your exact location.
“With NextGen911, we will be able to know a more accurate location of where you are,” Eggar said.
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
