The reason for the project? The Federal Communications Commission has informed the township that the agency is claiming Toms River’s current radio frequency. That means the township must switch to a new frequency by the end of 2023.
Police Chief Mitch Little said the township must switch from its current 500MHZ frequency to 700MHZ, the same frequency used by county and state law enforcement…
The 2022 International Wireless Communications Expo (IWCE) at the Las Vegas Convention Center came to a close Thursday with a passionate call for collaboration, interoperability at a morning keynote address by Billy Bob Brown Jr., executive assistant director for emergency communications with the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
“No doubt, all of you have been watching over the last several weeks the situation as it’s been unfolding in Europe, and in Ukraine,” Brown said, citing “Incredible international concerns that impact national security,” and in turn, “all of us here in the U.S…
Nodaway County will provide dispatch services of the police, fire department and ambulance service to Worth County effective June 1 after the proposed partnership was approved at a Maryville City Council meeting March 14.
Worth County sits directly east of Nodaway County and is the least populated county in Missouri, with a population just under 2,000. Worth County is the second smallest Missouri county by area, ahead of St. Louis County. It is also the youngest county in Missouri, organized on February 25, 1861. The county is largely rural and far away from any hospitals, which would make a 911 call all the more urgent…
Detective Jason Murphy has been a Dublin Police Department officer for more than 25 years and said that even after more than a quarter-century, almost every day still brings something unexpected.
“There is rarely a day when what you thought or expected it to be is the same. You never know what each day will bring you or how the day will bring it to you,” said Murphy, 50, who joined the Dublin Police Department in 1995 and became a detective in 2014.
But that is what makes working as a detective so rewarding to him, he said…
Teri Best, director of the Pecos Valley Regional Communications Center, says additional staff training and new software will improve emergency dispatch services to the area.
Area 911 dispatchers are using a new software system and have received additional training to respond to calls, with the goal of improving service to and outcomes for Chaves County residents.
The Pecos Valley Regional Communications Center has gone live with a structured call-taking software system for fire and medical emergencies. The system for law enforcement is expected to be ready for use with the public by summer…
STAMFORD – When a 15-by-20-foot slab of concrete collapsed into the parking garage of an apartment high-rise in Harbor Point, nobody called 911.
So no firefighters responded, as they normally would. And a building official did not immediately inspect the structure to ensure it was safe for the people living in 435 units at Allure.
It’s not clear from just-released recordings of phone calls to the Stamford Fire Department on that Feb. 1 afternoon what time the slab fell…
