by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 16, 2022 | Comm Center News
A Philadelphia mother was united with the 911 dispatcher who helped coach her during childbirth, Today reports. In November, Charlotte Fatoma went into labor en route to the hospital and eventually called 911, where dispatcher Elyce Rivera took her call.
Rivera, who started her new position four weeks prior, guided Fatoma through her delivery after the new mother pulled over while on the highway.
Fatoma decided to name her newborn daughter Elizabeth Elyce to honor Rivera’s service. The gratitude didn’t stop there, as Rivera was asked to be the baby’s godmother, People reports. The dispatcher happily accepted the proposition… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 15, 2022 | Comm Center News
IOWA CITY, Iowa (KWWL) – Fifty-seven percent of all U.S. adults say they have some kind of CPR training, but only 11% say they’ve ever actually used it.
Those numbers are according to PulsePoint, a smart phone app trying to use the community at large to save lives during sudden cardiac arrest.
“The goal of our campaign is to increase survival; through providing CPR training and promoting the use and distribution of AEDs,” Dr. James Merchant said with the Rotary-Kerber HeartSafe Community Campaign…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 15, 2022 | Comm Center News
It’s been a little over a year since the new Washington County Communications Center began operations, and in the past year it’s already proved its worth in different ways.
Safety was no concern for the dispatch staff in their tornado shelter-grade building when the December derecho came through Washington County, and Washington County Sheriff Chief Deputy Shawn Ellingson says they’ve hosted several agency trainings in the new building this past year that they weren’t able to previously. 911 Supervisor Cara Sorrells says having more dispatcher desks than in the previous center on West 2nd Street allows continuous response through shift changes, but like other local emergency response agencies Sorrells says they’ve had to work around staff shortages this past year…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 15, 2022 | Comm Center News
DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) — Just because something is routine doesn’t make it any less rigorous.
“It all boils down to consistency, best practices, continual improvement and constantly looking at your policies and procedures,” Zeta Fail, a lead assessor at the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies, Inc. (CALEA), told ABC11. “It’s accountability, it’s preparedness, and it’s just, it’s professionalism.”
On Monday, CALEA formally began its assessment of the Durham Emergency Communications Center (DECC), which last received its accreditation in 2018…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 15, 2022 | Comm Center News, Report
Editor’s Note: Thirteen associations have released a joint statement on lights and siren use in emergency medical services response. The statement is posted below verbatim.
The National Association of EMS Physicians and the then National Association of State EMS Directors created a position statement on emergency medical vehicle use of lights and siren in 1994.1
In 2009, there were 1,579 ambulance crash injuries,2 and most EMS vehicle crashes occur when driving with lights and siren (L&S).3 When compared with other similar-sized vehicles, ambulance crashes are more often at intersections, more often at traffic signals, and more often with multiple injuries, including 84% involving three or more people…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 15, 2022 | Comm Center News
SYLVANIA, Ohio (WTVG) – Residents of Sylvania have questions after several people called about a potentially deadly car fire last week and emergency crews were sent to Toledo instead. This is coming as Lucas County has implemented a new county-wide 911 system that some already had concerns about.
When that call came in last Friday morning just after midnight, Sylvania firefighters should have hit the road but they were never told about the fire right away. It was a fire that was less than a mile away from Station One…
