by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 28, 2023 | Comm Center News
The Mountain View City Council voted Tuesday night to approve early design plans for the city’s new public safety building, an expensive project that’s expected to cost between $160 and $165 million and may need a ballot measure to get over the finish line.
City officials have long sought to renovate or replace the public safety building at 1000 Villa Street. The building that houses the city’s police department operations, fire department administrative staff, emergency dispatch (the 911 call center) and emergency operations center, was built over 40 years ago and does not meet current seismic standards.
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 27, 2023 | Comm Center News
If approved, people who call 911 could hear a prompt asking them to push 1 to contact police, 2 for fire, or 3 for EMS before hearing a dispatcher’s voice.
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 26, 2023 | Comm Center News
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.
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 26, 2023 | Comm Center News
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.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 26, 2023 | Comm Center News
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.
by AllThingsECC.com | Jun 23, 2023 | Comm Center News
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.
