She’s been a Fayette County 911 dispatcher and unsung hero for the past six years. When Bertha Blankenship took the call that her husband fell ill in 2022 it hit home and she decided to write a book about her dispatching experience.
Kevin Fisher has been a communicator with Dane County dispatch for 34 years.
Fisher has worked in dispatch for so long people in the office and out in the community started calling him “911 guy”
After years of missed deadlines and documented safety issues surrounding the rollout of California’s Next Generation 911 system, project insiders are now speaking out, saying they feel compelled to warn the public about “major problems” with the years-long overhaul that has cost Californians nearly a half-billion dollars and counting.
The Oconee County community welcomed home a 911 dispatcher, who had suffered a medical emergency abroad.
Members of community and Oconee County Sheriff’s Office lined up in Walhalla to greet Katie Johns as she was driven to her house.
California is in the midst of a massive overhaul of its aging, landline-based 9-1-1 emergency call system, with project leaders promising the ground-breaking “Next Generation 911” (NG911) network will suffer fewer outages, deliver improved location accuracy, and better connect more than 440 emergency call centers across the state.
The Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) made recommendations to FCC Chairwoman Rosenworcel’s office to issue proposed rulemaking on additional interoperability requirements for 9-1-1 providers. Specifically, APCO suggested that the emergency communication centers (ECC) which each provider serves should be able to certify their ability to transfer traffic to other ECCs located in at least three other states. This certification will demonstrate the ECCs’ capabilities to provide mutual aid to neighboring ECCs as well as troubleshoot misdirected IP-based traffic. APCO also suggested the FCC expand upon technical requirements for providers, such as record management and upgrading existing technology.
