Officials with Northwest Territories 911 are warning that overlapping emergency dispatch systems in Yellowknife could pose a safety risk to people in urgent need of care.
Voicing these concerns, Dr. Rahul Khosla, the territory’s 911 medical director with Advanced Medical Solutions wrote to the Municipal and Community Affairs Department’s (MACA) deputy minister, Laura Gareau on March 24…
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. — Julie Tobey, an eight-year veteran of St. Joe County 9-1-1 dispatch, has been named as the new Executive Director of the St. Joseph County Communications Center.
Tobey was formerly responsible for dispatching police, fire and emergency medical vehicles across all of St. Joe County, and was named the Indiana Dispatcher of the year in 2019.
Co-workers and county officials believe that she is the right person for the job thanks to her dedication, as well as more than a decade of experience working in her field…
Local officials joined U.S. Rep Hal Rogers on May 4 as Rogers announced nearly $900,000 in funding for upgrades to Johnson County’s emergency dispatch system. U.S. Representative Hal Rogers visited the U.S. 23 Country Music Highway Museum on Wednesday, May 4, announcing the earmarking of approximately $859,000 in federal funds dedicated to upgrading the Paintsville/Johnson County Emergency Management communications system…
Nonemergency calls can tie up a line for those that have an urgent emergency.
INDIANAPOLIS — Emergency operators say you’d be surprised how often people call 911 for something other than an actual emergency.
“Pretty much anything like overflowing sinks, ‘I’ve been locked out of my apartment,’ there’s nothing else going on,” said Melanie Castille, dayshift manager at Marion County’s 911 Center…
BOULDER, Colo. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today the launch of the Public Safety Immersive Test Center in Boulder, Colorado, to spur the development and deployment of technologies critical to effective public safety response. Through this partnership, NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division and the FirstNet Authority plan to enable research and development, education, and training, by offering the facility at no cost to public safety agencies and organizations that support public safety response efforts, including private sector and academic institutions…
When Amanda Bryans figured out that her husband was having a stroke, she immediately called 911. But instead of speaking to someone, she heard something that “sounded like a fax tone,” the Wheaton resident posted April 18 on the neighborhood platform Nextdoor.
“I hung up and my phone rang with a message to push 1 if I had an emergency. I pushed 1 and got cut off,” Bryans wrote. “I repeated this whole sequence this until on the 4th try, I was connected to a 911 operator. The ambulance arrived shortly thereafter. The whole thing was unnerving but delayed he’ll only by 3-4 minutes. I guess the message is that if you need help, you may need to repeat 911 call until you get through…
