by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 7, 2019 | Comm Center News
FRANKLIN COUNTY (Sept. 6, 2019) — Makenzie Cleary, a
911 Dispatcher, received a prestigious award for her actions this
summer in helping save a man’s life.
Emergency Services Director John Thierwechter and county
commissioners presented the Emergency Health Service Federation Clinical
Save Award to Cleary.
“We are thankful for Makenzie’s efforts in this critical situation
resulting in a life saved,” said Commissioner Chairman Dave Keller.
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 7, 2019 | Comm Center News
McComb Police Chief Damian Gatlin brought more staffing issues to the city board’s attention at Tuesday’s work session.
In
addition to four vacancies in the detective division, Gatlin said he
has five full-time positions available in dispatch, for which people
keep dropping out during training.
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 6, 2019 | Comm Center News
Pending county board approval, Piatt County will soon have a new 9-1-1 director.
A
notice sent out by the county on Friday stated that a short reception
would be held following the Sept. 11 county board meeting to welcome Tim
Furman as the new 9-1-1 director.
Furman, a dispatcher for DeWitt County CenCom since September of 2017, confirmed the hire on Facebook.
“I’m very excited as to what the future holds,
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 6, 2019 | Comm Center News
BEREA, Ohio — For many Berea residents, Anne Boone has been the reassuring voice they hear when they call the Berea Police Department.
Even
after dispatch services were regionalized in Strongsville five years
ago, “people call and ask for me,” said Boone, who retired at the end of
her shift at noon on Aug. 21 after 35 years as a dispatcher and five
years as a clerk with the BPD.
(Congratulations and thank you for your service from all of us at allthingsecc.com.)
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 6, 2019 | Comm Center News
On a recent weekday afternoon on an upper-level floor of the
Montgomery County Hospital District’s administrative building in south
Conroe, dispatcher Andrew Scroggins received a call from a woman about 8
miles away who feared she was suffering a stroke.
Closely following a procedural script, Scroggins asked
the woman on the other end about her symptoms and instructed her on what
to do as MCHD paramedics made their way to her home in The Woodlands.
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 6, 2019 | Comm Center News
In her long career as an EMS dispatcher in Halton and Peel, Laura Grant “has touched innumerable lives,” according to her family.
Those people, and hundreds more of Grant’s family members,
friends and colleagues, are expected today (Sept. 6) as a celebration of
life will be held for the 57-year-old Burlington mother of two and
grandmother of one.
