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…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 13, 2021 | Comm Center News
COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater City Council will be asked by Public Safety Director Joe Scheid on Monday night to approve his request to update the current video surveillance system at the Coldwater Public Safety Building.
Scheid says there are four surveillance cameras in the building that were installed many years ago to allow the records clerks to see if there were any police officers available to take complaints, and they do not record.
He goes on to say in his letter to the Council that the current political climate has led to a rise in police stations and public safety employees being targeted during retaliatory violent acts…
by ECC Editor | Dec 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) – The pandemic has shown how critical emergency medical services are across the country.
But in South Carolina and most other states, EMS is not classified as an “essential service,” as law enforcement and fire services are.
While those services have been part of the US in some fashion since colonial times, EMS is much younger, established in many areas of the country in the 1970s, according to South Carolina EMS Association Advocacy and Legislative Chair Steven McDade… READ MORE
