by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 16, 2022 | Comm Center News
Governor Kathy Hochul has announced a successful collaboration between the New York Power Authority and AT&T to pilot FirstNet, built with AT&T, as part of a NYPA private wireless Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology pilot project. FirstNet is the only nationwide, high-speed broadband communications platform dedicated to America’s first responders and the extended public safety community. The NYPA project aims to build a secure, robust and reliable LTE network and enhance the statewide utility’s readiness and operational and programmatic capabilities. As an organization that could be called upon to help support New York’s public safety in day-to-day operations and during emergency response, NYPA is evaluating FirstNet’s ability to equip its employees with new capabilities and reliable access to critical information while in the field, allowing them to better serve New York State and advance New York’s energy system resiliency goals…
by AllThingsECC.com | Feb 16, 2022 | Comm Center News
Reveal Chief Investigator Brendan Keefe reported Tuesday afternoon that the bill had advanced unanimously out of the Georgia Senate Public Safety Committee.
ATLANTA — A Georgia Senate committee has passed a bill overhauling the state’s 911 system and training standards following an 11Alive Reveal investigation last year that found dozens of people had been in need of life-saving assistance at Atlanta’s airport while 911 operators were expressly barred from giving them.
Reveal Chief Investigator Brendan Keefe reported Tuesday afternoon that the bill had advanced unanimously out of the Georgia Senate Public Safety Committee…
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…
