St. Tammany Parish Communications District 1 moved into its state-of-the-art facility north of Lacombe in 2019 — a central and safe location from which emergency personnel can work dispatch for the parish’s first responder agencies.
Burlington County is seeking state funding to help make additional improvements to its emergency communications system.
Three California Highway Patrol emergency dispatchers were able to help a 12-year-old boy after he called 911 fearing for his safety after his father was driving erratically on the freeway.
WASHINGTON COUNTY, Md. (DC News Now) — A “cybersecurity incident” on Thanksgiving caused a disruption to certain computer systems, including the county’s website and some services.
Not only was Clarion County the first county in Pennsylvania to have a 9-1-1 service, but the county is also now part of 10 counties in the Northern Tier region that successfully upgraded to the Next Generation 911 system.
Eight of California’s 450 public-safety answering points (PSAPs) have migrated at least some emergency calls from legacy 911 technology to a next-generation 911 (NG911) platform, and the number of 911 centers making a similar transition should increase in 2023.
