AT&T said it is standing ready with “an arsenal of disaster response equipment and personnel” as Hurricane Ian approaches.
The telecommunications company said it is closely monitoring the storm, which is currently on track to make landfall on Florida’s west coast late Wednesday or early Thursday according to the National Hurricane Center. As of 8 a.m. Tuesday, Ian’s center was over Cuba, 200 miles south of Key West, with sustained winds of 125 mph, making it a Category 3 storm.
The City of Rehoboth Beach’s 9-1-1 Communications Center has been recertified as an Accredited Center of Excellence for medical, and police as well as fire dispatch services. Accreditation is valid for a three-year period. Rehoboth’s communications center first received IAED accreditation for medical dispatch in 1995 and for police and fire dispatch in 2018. The city earned triple ACE accreditation initially in 2019.
It will get much busier at the Orange County EOC in the next 24 hours as Ian gets closer to the sunshine state. Orlando’s emergency operations center will also be operating with full staffing beginning Wednesday. Both of the hubs for emergency communications will help the city and the county track the storm’s approach and use hundreds of cameras in the metro area and along the major highways to see how the storm is affecting traffic, and even to detect damage as the worst of the winds and rain blow through.
Minneapolis police say it’s taking too long to respond to dangerous and immediate emergencies.
Last week, interim Minneapolis Police Chief Amelia Huffman told a City Council committee the average 911 response time for officers citywide is now eight and a half minutes, which includes high-priority calls known as Priority 1 calls.
Until a few days ago, New Orleans’ 911 emergency dispatch system didn’t make a distinction between a robbery in progress and one that took place weeks ago.
But under a change that went into effect this weekend, the system will stop assigning old incidents the same priority designation it does for those that are still happening when the call is made.
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