A Potter County Sheriff’s Office employee will deploy later this week to support emergency dispatch operations in Kerrville, as part of a coordinated response to widespread flooding in Central Texas.
After more than 56 years, the Germantown Police Department’s dispatch center has transferred its emergency call operations to the Washington County Sheriff’s Department.
“Today for the first time in over 56 years the microphones in the communications center of the Germantown Police Department will fall silent,” the final dispatcher said when they signed off on Sunday.
AT&T announces that AT&T ESInet—the carrier’s i3-compliant Emergency Services IP Network (ESInet) that is designed to help enable next-generation 911 (NG911)—will support photo and video messaging natively within 911 systems, as well as the delivery of automatic crash alerts.
An outage snarled some communications between Baltimore police and fire officials last week, briefly causing disarray as officers repeatedly called for medics to help a man who later died in custody.
A judge in Philadelphia has ordered that striking AFSCME District Council 33 members who work in the 911 call center must return to work, according to newly released court documents.
“Time saves lives,” Milam said. “It is universally understood amongst emergency services in Sebastian County that 911 consolidation will be a benefit to them.”
FORT SMITH, Ark. — In an effort to cut down emergency response times and improve coordination among first responders, Sebastian County and the City of Fort Smith are taking major steps toward opening a consolidated 911 dispatch center.
