Graham graduated from Floyd County High School in 2008, started his career with the Christiansburg Police Department in 2012 and worked with NRV 911 from 2016 until October 2021….
How Emergency Services Can Improve in 2022 With NG911
For the past 50 years, 911 has remained relatively unchanged. The need to upgrade is evident as technology evolves and the demand for more reliable emergency response grows.
Although 911 is vital to every community, NG911 can help make it better. As the nationwide initiative to upgrade traditional 911 systems to NG9-1-1 continues, so does the opportunity to enhance public safety in the new year… READ MORE
Now is Not the Time to Change 911 System (CA)
Last week I was forwarded a newsletter from the Montecito Association. I was struck by the recommendation to use the 10-digit phone number for the Santa Barbara Sheriff’s landline rather than 911 when reporting an emergency in Montecito, specifically Coast Village Road. Having dealt extensively with this issue during my career with Santa Barbara City Fire, I thought it might be useful to share some of what I learned and why I feel that this is a bad idea, especially regarding Fire and Emergency Medical dispatching..
Fort Worth Police Audit Faults Response Times, 911 Issues (TX)
The Fort Worth police department did not meet its own response-time goals in nearly half of high-priority emergency calls and nearly one in four 911 callers reached a recording and hung up before an operator picked up, according to a city audit obtained by NBC 5.
The department reached its goal of arriving at Priority 1 calls in eight minutes and 54 seconds only 54% of the time, according to the report by the city’s internal audit department… READ MORE
‘Level zero’: ABC15 investigates ambulance response times (AZ)
PRESCOTT, AZ — On June 30, dispatchers inside the Prescott Regional Dispatch Center repeated the same thing again and again.
“(Unit 1201) is en route with a 41-minute ETA, and we’re in ‘level zero’ again.”
“And that brings us back down to to ‘level zero.’”
“I have no units available.”
Those are just a few of several dispatches captured on radio traffic obtained by ABC15 from that day…
AT&T, Verizon reject U.S. request to delay 5G wireless plans
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…
