by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 4, 2022 | Comm Center News
WASHINGTON — Verizon and AT&T have rejected a request by the U.S. government to delay the rollout of next-generation wireless technology.
A joint letter Sunday from the telecommunications giants to U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Steve Dickson, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration, sought to dismiss concerns brought by U.S. airlines that a new 5G wireless service could harm aviation…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 4, 2022 | Comm Center News
HARRISONBURG, Va. (WHSV) – Page County Emergency Communications Center has announced that CenturyLink/Lumen is experiencing issues that are affecting 911 lines in the county.
If you call 911, you may be re-routed to one of the Page County ECC administrative lines. Please press the option to get to the dispatch center…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 4, 2022 | Comm Center News
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Mecklenburg EMS has requested “ambulance strike teams” as it faces a more transmissible COVID-19 variant, an ongoing staffing shortage and an increase in service calls.
As of Monday, 33 Medic employees are in isolation due to COVID-19, the agency’s Deputy Director Jon Studnek said during a virtual news conference Monday. On Dec. 21, Medic had just three employees in isolation, he said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 3, 2022 | Comm Center News
Omega. Alpha. Bravo. Charlie. Delta. Echo.
Kenosha Fire Department is now utilizing these codes to classify medical service calls as a safety initiative as emergency units are dispatched.
Division Chief of EMS Nicholas Eschmann said whenever someone calls 911 for emergency medical services a dispatcher asks them a series of questions to determine the severity of the situation.
The levels are designed to help curb the use of lights and sirens on lower-level calls…
by ECC Editor | Jan 3, 2022 | Comm Center News
If you’re thinking about pulling a “Crank Yanker” trick on Lyon County 911 operators, think again.
The Lyon County Emergency Communications Center announced a new tool Sunday to track incoming calls. A Facebook statement said it can “possibly see your 911 call before it even rings into our center.“
The tool is from RapidSOS, a company based in New York. The LCECC says its mapping portal allows dispatchers to have “street view access to a majority of the Lyon County area.” … READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Jan 1, 2022 | Comm Center News
Marion County’s 911 center experienced an hourlong outage after the clock struck midnight on New Year’s Day, while hundreds of calls poured in reporting celebratory gunshots.
“I have never seen anything even close to what happened last night,” said Michael Hubbs, director of the Marion County 911 Center, which as of Saturday is housed within the new Metropolitan Emergency Services Agency.
From 12:02 to 12:03 a.m., his center received 206 calls. In the first five minutes, there were more than 500.
That’s when the dispatch system went down, and stayed down through the hour. By 1 a.m., it started to slowly come back; by 1:45 a.m., the center was fully functional…
