Aquinnah’s newest resident was delivered at 11:48 p.m. on Sept. 1 as his parents Kyle Colter and Sophia Welch were on the phone with emergency dispatch. The mother and child were soon after brought to Martha’s Vineyard Hospital, where Aquinnah town administrator Jeffrey Madison said they were resting and doing well. Ms. Welch is Mr. Madison’s assistant in town hall.
The Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska is now working with Everbridge, a leader in critical communications, to provide tribal citizens with emergency communication before, during and after a critical event.
According to a press release, the Everbridge emergency notification system will be used as the tribe’s primary critical event management technology platform to provide emergency and non-emergency communication, comprehensive assessment and response to community incidents.
The first of two new protocol systems for call-takers at Cincinnati’s 911 center are now in place. You may think call-takers have a script they follow or a standard set of questions, but, until now, that was only the case for medical emergency calls.
With a shortage of dispatchers and an increase in crime, resources can be stretched thin— We’ve heard your concerns and reported on the delays in Little Rock’s emergency response.
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Did the inability of one 911 system to talk to another across a county line cost a 30-year-old Indianapolis man his life?
A common misconception is that 911 callers get the closest available first responders; that is not always the case. Boundaries for counties can get in the way.
Legislation before the U.S. Senate that would allocate as much as $10 billion in federal funds for next-generation 911 (NG911) deployment includes language that “will unnecessarily detract from and delay NG911 implementation,” according to a letter from the National Association of State 911 Administrators (NASNA).
