ST. LOUIS (KMOV) – Doctors told Erricka Moorehead that her due date was September 12. But her daughter had a different plan, and Gabriela Marie Cooper was born on August 8 when Moorehead was at home alone.
The city’s director of public safety communications had a message for the Hill South community management team: in an emergency, call 911 — not the personal number of the neighborhood’s top cop.
“We did call 911,” responded Meghan Currey, who heads the neighborhood’s Wilson Library Branch. “Nobody ever answered.”
The towns of Braintree and Randolph have received a $4.1 million grant from the state for the development of a regional public safety dispatch center next to town hall.
The center would serve Braintree’s police and fire departments and the Randolph police. Officials said the center would strengthen the working relationship between the two communities.
A hearing was held on Wednesday to discuss the issues and how to improve the District’s Office of Unified Communications after several issues have been reported with wrong addresses and a slower-than-expected implementation of recommended changes from the D.C. Auditor. FOX 5’s David Kaplan reports.
A resolution introduced at Monday night’s city council meeting proposed the city use a faster, more reliable system called Next Generation 9-1-1 (NG911), saying, in part, it will “provide faster and more reliable emergency assistance by using updated technology to provide real-time information.”
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Edmonson County Dispatch Center Director, Robin Rigdon, says the center can get anywhere from 35 to 70 calls a day.
“Our consoles have reached the maximum capabilities of the radio channels that we can answer for,” Rigdon said.
