ZANESVILLE – Amidst the daily chaos of law enforcement, fire and EMS, lies the men and women on the receiving end of 911.
Dispatchers are literally the lifeline heroes of every emergency, according to Kim Hambel, director of operations at the Muskingum County Sheriff’s office.
Yet they are seldom credited and even less often experience the resolve of their first-responder efforts.
A groundbreaking ceremony of the new Holbrook Regional Emergency Communications Center (HRECC) will take place at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, at the Holbrook Public Safety Building, 300 South Franklin St.
The public may attend the groundbreaking ceremony, Director of Communications Stephen Hooke stated.
The planned 5,967 square-foot expansion will provide space for up to 12 dispatch consoles and dramatically increase the equipment room space available for any future equipment upgrades.
Macomb County’s flashy, modern communications center was plagued over the past three months by air and odor issues that sickened dispatchers and forced the transfer of the operation to Warren for weeks at a time.
About 15 to 18 dispatchers at the Communications and Technology Center on Groesbeck Highway in Mount Clemens sought medical treatment at different intervals after getting sick due an unknown air issue that appeared to be related to a roof-replacement project, according to officials and Mount Clemens ambulance reports. Some dispatchers reported respiratory problems, headaches and feeling feint.
Sarasota County, Fla., yesterday announced that it has selected RapidDeploy to provide its 911 emergency communications center with a new cloud-based computer-aided dispatch (CAD)—or cloud-aided dispatch—in an effort to improve the center’s flexibility, operations and security, according to a county official.
Sarasota County 911 Director Sally Lawrence said moving her center’s CAD system to the cloud from a fully on-premise environment is an attractive proposition.
After a company that made software James City County police use to manage its records was sold in May, the new owner said it would no longer support the old systems. That prompted county officials to reconsider a merger between the county’s 911 dispatch center and the regional emergency communications center in an effort to save tax dollars.
While a feasibility study on the potential merger slid by the wayside after it was published last year, it resurfaced after the police department’s digital records management software distributor, Central Square, said it would no longer update the product in about a year, according to County Administrator Scott Stevens. It’d take months for the county to find a new service provider and that could come with a hefty price tag.
The Medical Dispatch Software Market is expected to expand at a steady rate of +6% during the forecast period.
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