New Cobb 911 Academy class prepares next generation of 911 professionals (GA)
Oct. 22—Cobb’s 911 Director sees brighter days ahead when it comes to attracting candidates to be Cobb’s front line public safety professionals.
Inside Metro Dispatch: The heart of Clark County’s emergency response – (NV)
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Calls for help come into the LVMPD Communications Center 24 hours a day seven days a week, and the men and women working inside the buildings walls have to coordinate the emergency response to save lives.
Hastings presents $610000 grant to enhance 911 Orland Fire response – (IL)
Orland Park, IL — Illinois Senator Michael Hastings joined officials of the Orland Fire Protection District on Thursday to announce the award of a $610,000 State Grant to enhance the district’s regional 911 emergency system and “save more lives.”
‘Everyone went laser-focused’: 911 dispatcher recalls how emergency calls flooded in … – (NC)
RALEIGH, N.C. — Thursday marks one week since a mass shooting clamed the lives of five people and injured two others in Raleigh’s Hedingham neighborhood.
WRAL News spoke with Raleigh-Wake Emergency Communications Center telecommunicator Tracy La Cascia, who took some of the first surge of calls on Oct. 13. She dispatched emergency medical services and police to help those in need.
They stayed on the line to help others, even though their own homes and families were in … (CA)
The woman on the line had called 911. She had her dog but was otherwise alone.
And she was terrified.
“She said she woke up and her whole house was surrounded by flames and she had no way out,” KT McNulty remembered.
CCPD’S dispatch center gets major technological upgrades (TX)
Next Generation 911 will replace CCPD’s current analog system and bring much needed upgrades to the MetroCom system.
