McLean County dispatchers will offer a 911 emergency texting option | (IL)
Emergency dispatch centers in McLean County will start a new text-to-911 service next week.
Columbus to expand hours for special 911 response unit that handles mental health calls (OH)
While members of an activist group seek changes to the Columbus police response to mental health crises to limit potentially deadline outcomes, the city of Columbus announced on Monday that it is expanding a pilot 911 response unit program begun a year ago.
PulsePoint To Host Contest Promoting Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month
ANNOUNCEMENT / PRESS RELEASE
As a 911 organization and/or professional that is committed to sudden cardiac arrest survivability, you understand the life-saving potential of AEDs (Automated External Defibrillators) and the need to increase their visibility to the community to locate them during an emergency.
This October, during Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Month, the non-profit PulsePoint Foundation is rewarding communities for identifying and registering AEDs.
Each AED registered from October 1 through 31 will gain you an entry to win one of ten $500 Amazon gift cards. Also, the community that registers the most AEDs collectively will be granted $5,000 towards the purchase of new AEDs from PulsePoint.
AEDs must be registered through the free PulsePoint AED app or online at AED.new. After verification, those AEDs are then added to the PulsePoint AED Registry to be shared with bystanders and 911 dispatchers during a cardiac emergency. The globally accessible PulsePoint AED Registry currently includes more than 126,000 AEDs. There is no cost to participate in and use the PulsePoint AED Registry.
Visit www.pulsepoint.org/aedcontest to review the complete list of contest rules and download helpful resources to spread awareness to your community.
Fayetteville officials tout need for passage of bond packages up for vote in November
For more than three decades, the city of Fayetteville’s 911 call center has operated from the same space at police headquarters downtown.
Over those 30 plus years, the population has grown and communications technology has evolved. For those reasons and others, city officials say, it’s time for modernization.
Dispatch directors discuss the hurdles facing their profession in the 21st Century | (MI)
When you have an emergency, help is just a phone call away but filling vacancies in dispatch centers across the state is becoming increasingly difficult.
City to raise pay for 911 operators and police dispatchers amid vacancies (TX)
The city of Austin will raise pay rates for 911 call takers and police dispatchers for the second time in five months in an effort to stem rising vacancy rates.
