by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 18, 2024 | Comm Center News
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The National Emergency Number Association praised President Biden for recognizing National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week (NPSTW) in a letter from the White House.
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 18, 2024 | Comm Center News
(AP) – Law enforcement agencies in Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota and Texas reported temporary outages to 911 services before saying hours later that services had been restored. It was not immediately clear what caused the outages or whether they were related.
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 17, 2024 | Comm Center News
Updated April 17, 2024 at 6:04 PM ET
HONOLULU — As wildfires ripped across Maui last August, the head of the emergency management agency dragged his heels about returning to the island amid the unfolding crisis, while a broad communications breakdown left authorities in the dark and residents without emergency alerts, according to a report released Wednesday.
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 17, 2024 | Comm Center News
The soft gray light pouring into the windows of their upper floor control room, coupled with the calm, low voices of Porter County’s E911 dispatchers, belies the urgency of the accidents and medical emergencies the first class telecommunicators field on a recent rainy Friday afternoon before this, National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 17, 2024 | Comm Center News
—Telecommunications specialists at the Natrona County Public Safety Communications Center handled over 29,600 calls 911 in 2023, according to the Casper Police Department.
“We call them the ‘first’ first responders,” CPD Information Officer Amber Freestone told Oil City News.
by AllThingsECC.com | Apr 17, 2024 | Comm Center News
Calling 911 is meant to save lives. But the emergency service, and others like it, are also viewed as ripe targets for criminally minded cyber-attackers, according to a new federal assessment – and any vulnerability in those critical networks can expose victims to a multitude of dangerous ripple effects.