by ECC Editor | Jan 26, 2022 | Comm Center News
GRANGEVILLE — Emergency calls to the Idaho County Sheriff’s Office have skyrocketed over the past three years because of the continued growing population, a communications officer reported Tuesday.
Mandee Mignerey, communications supervisor for the sheriff’s office, said the communications center — which dispatches for the sheriff’s office, Grangeville and Cottonwood city police, Idaho Fish and Game Department, U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management law enforcement, 12 EMS responders and 17 fire departments within the county — received 22,694 total emergency calls in 2021. That was an increase of 36.8% from 2019, an average of more than 62 emergency calls per day. In 2019, the average was 45 per day… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 26, 2022 | Comm Center News
(TNS) — After more than 20 years of on-and-off discussions about consolidation, Astoria and Seaside are evaluating whether to combine emergency dispatch centers.
Sheriff Matt Phillips said the Clatsop County Sheriff’s Office has strongly supported the concept for years and believes a single countywide 911 dispatch center would be in the best interests of the public and emergency responders.
Staffing shortages at Astoria’s dispatch center reached a critical point last fall, prompting the city to temporarily move operations to Seaside…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 26, 2022 | Comm Center News
ROCKY HILL, Conn. (WTNH) – The Rocky Hill Police Department launched a new mobile app to improve communications with residents. It’s the first department in Connecticut to use the public safety app called Atlas 1.
If there is a crime in Rocky Hill, there’s now an app that will tell residents about it.
“You don’t have to search for the information, the information finds you,” Rocky Hill Police Sgt. Steve Morgan said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
The province says they’re taking steps to address pressure on emergency medical services.
In response to the increase in EMS service across Alberta, the province is launching an emergency medical services advisory committee to provide immediate and long-term recommendations to form a new provincial EMS plan.
According to the province, EMS has seen a 30 per cent increase in 911 calls over the last few months. In addition to the rise in calls, the EMS system has faced staff fatigue and illness, hospital offload delays, more requests for patient transfers, delays in receiving new ambulances, and specialized vehicle parts caused by global supply issues…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Questions remain about a 911 call placed nearly 12 hours before a Kansas City woman was found dead and her daughter severely beaten and hospitalized in critical condition with head trauma.
Neither police nor prosecutors can confirm to FOX4, but indications are now that police likely responded in some fashion after getting a 911 call with an open line and fighting in the background just after 6 a.m., Jan. 15.
It’s unclear what dispatchers and police were immediately able to uncover after that call placed from the phone of Mackenzie Hopkins, and it may shed light on issues 911 dispatchers still deal with despite the modern technology and constant communication cell phones provide applications with location data…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 25, 2022 | Comm Center News
JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – Sometimes it isn’t possible to talk on the phone during an emergency, and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) has now implemented a new program to help with that.
For years the only way to contact 911 has been through a phone call. However, technology is improving, and JCSO is adapting.
“This is step one of many in the coming months that we’re going to be taking to increase the amount of technology available to the public to reach us and to our call-takers and dispatchers to help the public,” 911 Coordinator Daniel Warren said…
