POCATELLO, Idaho (KIFI) – All this week is National Public Safety Telecommunications Week (NPSTW). The event is observed every second week in April to honor those tele-communicators who help save millions of lives every day, according to National Today.
Every day in Pocatello, the dispatch team answers hundreds of 911 and non-emergency calls. Not only do they dispatch for police and fire for the City of Pocatello, they also dispatch for EMS and all of Bannock County…
Monday marked the beginning of the 2022 National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, which is set for April 10-16. The purpose of the week is to recognize dispatchers in St. Clair County who work daily to make sure the correct responders are able to manage emergencies quickly.
The department has been gearing up for the week by asking locals to “adopt a dispatcher” to send gifts to. This year every dispatcher was adopted. In the past dispatchers have received gifts from local responders, but this year it was opened up for community donations… READ MORE
There is no doubt that technology has advanced at a tremendous rate in the last 20 years. We literally carry portable supercomputers with us everywhere, keeping us connected to the entire planet with nothing more than a small digital keyboard, and the days of pay-per-text cellular service are long gone.
Text messaging may be one of the greatest advances in communication technology, allowing us to express our thoughts, feelings, and ideas directly from our minds to our fingertips and, ultimately, to the eyes or ears of the recipient of the message. those messages…
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) – A St. Joe County 911 dispatcher was recognized for her life saving work.
Every call she takes could be the difference between life and death for the person on the other end of the line.
A recent call proves that.
Lisa Urbanski got a call from a driver whose car had flipped upside down in water. While he was able to get out of the car before help arrived, he was still stuck…
Being a dispatcher is more than just answering phone calls, but a dispatcher who answers your call is the vital beginning to getting you the help you need in emergency situations.
That’s John Gohr, the Department Head of the Communications Center in the new Floyd County Courthouse in Charles City and a 20-year veteran of being a dispatcher . He says staying calm as a dispatcher can be even more challenging in a small community, where you may even know the person involved in the emergency…
FLINT, MI — More than six years after Genesee County 911 took over dispatching Flint police and fire calls, Police Chief Terence Green says would like to bring the program back in-house.
Speaking to the City Council during a budget hearing on Thursday, April 14, Green said the city has been researching making such a move, said he prefers to handle the dispatching in the city, and said the change could be made with a $3-4 million investment of American Rescue Plan Act funds…
