The proclamation called public safety communicators “the first and most critical contact our citizens have with emergency services” and “the vital first link for first responders by monitoring their activities by radio, providing them information, and ensuring their safety.” It also noted communicators’ contributions “to the apprehension of criminals, suppression of fires and treatment of patients…
Sidney is still waiting for official confirmation that the province has deferred downloading the costs related to police dispatching.
A provincial official earlier this spring told North Cowichan that senior spheres have found funding for RCMP E-Comm 911 dispatch. E-Comm 911 is a multi-municipality agency that provides emergency communications operations for British Columbia, including Sidney and North Saanich. They along with six other communities on southern Vancouver Island had previously received notice that they would have to absorb 100 per cent of the costs for RCMP E-Comm 911 dispatch calls under an arranged phase-in…
A series of fire alarms dragged Hillsboro firefighters to Container Services earlier this month only to find that Container Services was not having a burst of arson but rather issues with its alarm system, which that caused repeated automatic notifications.
Faulty alarms have cried wolf for emergency services at least once a week and as often as six times a month since the start of 2022.
Emergency medical services may call in police as well for assistance in entry to places that, as it later turned out, they didn’t need to be in. And some alarms are activated multiple times in a short period…
MCLEAN, Va. and BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., April 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NGA 911, LLC (NGA), the source for complete, customizable and reliable NG9-1-1 solutions, today partnered with NextNav, a leader in next generation GPS, to provide actionable vertical location to its ever-growing public safety client base.
Using the NGA-powered NGCS ESInet, agencies gain greater situational awareness and benefit from a common picture of Emergency Communication Centers (ECCs) in a single framework. Now, NGA’s clients will receive the most accurate vertical location data, provided by NextNav Pinnacle and delivered across the geospatially-powered ESInet domain. The result: NGA will be positioned to natively route floor-level vertical location data of incoming requests for service across its ecosystem and display the location in 2D and 3D formats. In turn, First Responders gain the confidence that they – and those they’re dispatched to serve – will remain protected in emergency response instances…
SAN ANTONIO – Staffing the 9-1-1 Dispatch Center in Helotes has become a major concern for Mayor Rich Whitehead. Bexar County could be the solution to the problem.
“Our call volume for Helotes and Grey Forest only accounts for about 30 percent of capacity,” Whitehead says. “It got to the point over time where we were really not financially responsible to continue paying the amount of money that we are for the amount of call volume that Helotes generates…
The Defense Information Systems Agency has crafted a strategy to help the Department of Defense implement an emergency response system for military personnel to communicate with 9-1-1 call centers via text message and video or voice calls.
DISA said Monday it will work with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Emergency Communications Preparedness Center to secure DOD networks during the Next Generation 9-1-1 system transition process…
