by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 13, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Thomas Randall, Senior Public Safety Advisor for New Mexico, First Responder Network Authority
Every day first responders step out into the frontlines to protect and serve their communities. In the last decade, firefighters, law enforcement officers, and EMS professionals nationwide rarely responded to incidents without bringing their mobile devices.
The tech revolution has made it possible for first responders to do things previously not imagined. Nowadays, first responders load their mobile phones with apps to wield drones during search and rescue missions, monitor tornadoes, pull up floor plans in burning buildings, and much more.
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by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 13, 2021 | Comm Center News
With authorization from City Council, the Statesboro Fire Department and Statesboro Police Department are moving forward with a plan to merge the dispatching of fire calls – after the initial callout by 911 – into the existing SPD dispatching center at police headquarters.
In the process, the SPD dispatching center will be expanded with additional equipment and software and will hire eight additional dispatchers, doubling the number currently employed by the Police Department. Right now, all of the Statesboro Fire Department’s dispatching, including follow-up calls for continuing emergencies such as structure fires and rescues of entrapped drivers, is handled by the Bulloch County 911 Center, which also serves Candler and Evans counties under contract…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 13, 2021 | Comm Center News
Theresa Russell – Theresa Russell, director of Ohio County 911, has been on the job since 1989, just three years after the center was established. In that time, it’s gone from a phone-and-paper-pad operation to desktops with multiple computer screens and flip cards that dispatchers can now legally use to guide callers through life-saving responses within seconds. (Photo by Nora Edinger)
WHEELING — While TV dramas make it sound like 911 operators can offer instruction on everything from applying a tourniquet to defusing a bomb, the real, local deal said that’s an exaggeration. Sort of…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 13, 2021 | Comm Center News
REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — The Army marked the start of a partnership that will provide a dedicated communication network to first responders, every day and in every emergency.
Lt. Gen. Donnie Walker, deputy commanding general of Army Materiel Command and senior commander of Redstone Arsenal, joined Alabama Governor Kay Ivey; Richard Carrizzo, vice chair, FirstNet Government Authority Board of Directors; and Wayne Hutchens, president of AT&T Alabama, to announce new, purpose-built FirstNet cell sites at 72 Army installations nationwide.
Fort Carson’s Directorate of Emergency Services (DES) is already using FirstNet, and has been for about a year, said Greg Dickerson, operations officer, DES…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 13, 2021 | Comm Center News
NSW has opened a new Telecommunications Operations Centre in Sydney that will receive real-time information about critical infrastructure during emergencies such as floods and bushfires.
The facility will equip the state’s Telecommunications Emergency Management Unit (TEMU) with accurate updates that can be relayed to firefighters and first responders during natural emergencies about the location of at-risk critical infrastructure.
The managing director of the NSW Telco Authority, Kylie De Courteney, said crews could then be deployed to protect that infrastructure…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 13, 2021 | Comm Center News
BEARDSTOWN — Council approves dispatcher agreement Tuesday night.
City Council met Tuesday to discuss an agreement with Cass County Emergency Telephone System for the city’s dispatcher contract.
The council approved the contract for $88,000 and $3.80 for the 2022 calendar year. The amount increased slightly from last year.
Cass County operates the dispatch service, which is based in Virginia. The service answers all 911 calls and other calls to the police station. There are two ambulance stations one in Virginia and one in Beardstown…
