ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Anchorage residents experiencing emergencies will be unable to call 911 and need to call 311 instead.
In a community alert, Anchorage police wrote that people will be unable to reach emergency dispatchers by calling 911, and will instead need to call the 311 number “due to an ACS Network outage based in the Lower 48.”
House members this week overwhelmingly voted to approve a bill calling for $10 billion to fund the transition to IP-based, next-generation 911 (NG911) technology and the extension of the FCC’s spectrum-auction authority, sending the legislation to the Senate for consideration.
Making sure they’ve left no stone unturned, Randolph County Commissioners met with Linn County 911 Director Shelby Creed this month to discuss 911 emergency dispatch services.
The Randolph County Commission wants to patch all the holes in its emergency system using millions of dollars in federal COVID relief funds. The county has paid for consultants and has offered new equipment to the sheriff’s department, the Moberly police department, the county’s fire departments and the Randolph County ambulance district.
On Friday July 22, Communications Director Christina Mortimer graduated from the Association of Public-Safety Communications Officials Institute (APCO), Certified Public Safety Executive (CPE) program. The graduation ceremony was held at the Shores Resort in Daytona Beach Shores. Chief David K Williams was present for the ceremony.
The department is the first in Union County and the fifth in New Jersey to earn accreditation for the entire agency and the dispatch center, the chief said.
The Police-Fire-EMS Communications Center of the Westfield Police Department has earned a prestigious distinction, the police chief announced.
U.S. House members yesterday expressed support for legislation that would provide as much as $10 billion in federal funding to pay for a transition to IP-based next-generation 911 technology—as well as extend the FCC’s authority to conduct spectrum auctions—but postponed a vote on the bill.
