The incident happened on March 9 after the child went missing from a Vons grocery store around 4:30 p.m. while shopping with his family. Over the course of about 45 minutes, he had wandered more than two miles and ended up near State Route 52 and Mast Boulevard, where he ran into traffic.
Parkland College’s Support for Workforce Training (SWFT) program is set to launch a new Telecommunicator 9-1-1 training this summer, offering local residents a pathway into high-demand emergency dispatcher careers. The two-week training, which begins June 2, will be held through Parkland’s Office of Workforce Development and is open to community members across the college’s District 505 service area.
TROY — At a Troy City Council meeting April 21, council members unanimously approved contracts and budget considerations for upgrades and renovations to the Troy Police Department’s (TPD) Emergency Communications Center.
The Emergency Communications Center was originally designed and furnished over 20 years ago when the TPD building, located at 500 W. Big Beaver Road, was constructed. There have been no major renovations since then.
The 911 dispatcher who took the call from the suspected firebomber of the Governor’s Residence within an hour of the attack should have escalated the call, but didn’t, Dauphin County officials admitted.
Chief Clerk Eric Hagarty said the county learned the 911 dispatcher “did not appropriately escalate the call in accordance with County policy,” though county officials declined to provide the policy in question.
LEONARDTOWN, Md. – The St. Mary’s County Department of Emergency Services is celebrating a major milestone in emergency communications, tracing its evolution from a modest two-dispatcher Civil Defense Emergency Control Center in 1954 to a fully modernized 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Center (ECC) in 2025.
HAGERSTOWN – The night of April 19 inundated Washington County’s 911 Emergency Communications Center with a record-breaking 1,518 emergency calls over six hours as a powerful storm swept through the region with scant warning, causing widespread damage and prompting thousands of urgent pleas for help.
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
