by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 24, 2022 | Comm Center News
The following is a high-level summary of the major regulatory developments in these areas in the Golden State in 2021.
Enhancing Communications Network Resiliency
Wireless Resiliency Plans Filed
In late January 2021, California’s four facilities-based wireless providers filed Wireless Resiliency Plans for 2021 with the CPUC. The plans were required by CPUC Decision 20-07-011, which generally requires California’s facilities-based wireless providers to develop comprehensive resiliency strategies to prepare for catastrophic disasters and power outages by…
by ECC Editor | Jan 24, 2022 | Comm Center News
In an emergency situation, seconds could make the distinction among existence and death. To assist Rhode Island residents, a neighborhood lawmaker is asking for expanded CPR certifications for the state’s 911 operators. Under the invoice, at the least one operator skilled in telecommunicator CPR could be required to be on obligation in any respect instances.
“911 operators are the actual first responders and may make the distinction among existence and death,” Rep. Mia Ackerman (D-Dist. 45, Cumberland, Lincoln) said. “When CPR begins offevolved earlier than the appearance of an emergency scientific technician, the character in cardiac arrest is two-to-3 instances much more likely to survive. T-CPR can assist untrained callers offer cardiopulmonary resuscitation. It also can remind folks that are skilled the way to offer wonderful CPR… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 24, 2022 | Comm Center News
A Lexington radio station has named a Winchester emergency services employee as its First Responder of the Week.
WVLK-FM featured Ashley Reed, one of the city of Winchester’s 911 dispatch supervisors, in a social media post on Friday.
“Ashley’s team dispatches for police, fire, EMS & county fire. They answer all 911 & Admin (non-emergency) lines for all of Winchester/Clark County, all while keeping all EPO (Emergency Protection Orders) DVO (Domestic Violence Orders), wanted, violent, [and] missing person files,” the post says…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 24, 2022 | Comm Center News
Parks Canada is helping make Highway 93 a little safer, installing two new emergency satellite phones along the highway in Kootenay National Park.
There is currently no cell coverage or WiFi along most of the 105-kilometre stretch of Highway 93 South between Castle Mountain and Radium Hot Springs.
No cell service or wifi in the park creates challenges for emergency communications along the highway, which has seen an increase in traffic over the last year due to scheduled detours caused by closures of the Kicking Horse Canyon Project on the Trans Canada Highway east of Golden, which has rerouted traffic through Radium…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 24, 2022 | Articles, Comm Center News
LMR Technology For Public Safety
As a public safety organization, you need an LMR system that’s secure, reliable and ready to go at a moment’s notice.
At Leonardo, our software-defined solutions can be tailored to meet your needs. One size does not have to fit all. We offer solutions based on open standards with multiple modes and architectures, which provides a choice of applications and user terminals, as well as the flexibility to tailor a system to your requirements.
Our ECOS-D technology is multi-mode, capable of both P25 and DMR. For many public safety organizations, the initial direction preferred is P25. That’s because P25 was designed for public safety by public safety organizations…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 23, 2022 | Comm Center News
The omicron surge has caused some issues for regional law enforcement agencies, but it has not caused large disruptions on patrol or fire shifts.
Officials from Owensboro and Daviess County law enforcement and fire agencies said last week that the surge has occasionally required them to pay overtime to fill shifts, but said operations have been largely unaffected.
Trooper Corey King, public affairs officer for Kentucky State Police’s Henderson post, said Thursday that the agency had three troopers out earlier in the week with various illnesses…
