NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – According to a release sent out on Monday (June 26) afternoon, Orleans Parish Communication District Executive Director Tyrell Morris has announced his resignation.
Every time I read about a public safety agency being short staffed, with a burnt-out workforce, draining their overtime budget, I feel their pain.
by Karima Holmes
From New York to New Mexico and in communities all across the nation, police and fire departments routinely are forced to mandate longer shifts, which takes an emotional toll and raises the risk of errors being made by exhausted public-safety officers.
Brazos County sheriff’s deputies make an arrest after a man calls 9-1-1 eight times and the non-emergency dispatch number seven times during a five hour period last Sunday.
HIALEAH, Fla. — When Paulo Rivero fell from the roof of his home in West Hialeah, his wife, Aida, immediately called 911.
But no one answered while her husband was unconscious on the ground. Eventually, after repeated calls, an emergency operator got on the line. Aida Rivero, in her 70s, took her husband to the hospital.
DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) – The city of Dothan fired a 911 dispatch supervisor facing charges that she conspired to provide sensitive law enforcement data to a blogger.
Kaufman County emergency vehicles escorted the body of Kaufman County Sheriff’s Office Dispatcher Stormie Matthews from MD Anderson in Houston back to her home city, including passing through Athens mid-afternoon on Saturday.
