The Metropolitan Emergency Communications Center (MECC) opened on Tuesday and wanted to bring faster response times to people.
Columbus, Ohio — The new 911 Dispatch Center for the Metropolitan Emergency Communications Center (MECC) opened on Tuesday.
Leaders say that bringing the Gahana police dispatch to the same room as the fire brigade in Plain Township, Jeffersontown, Whitehall, Trulo Township, and Violet Township can help people faster in an emergency. I am…
U.S. senators today voted to confirm FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to a third term, assuring that Rosenworcel can remain on the commission through 2025 and avoiding an unusual scenario in which Republicans could have held an FCC majority while a Democrat president was in office.
Senators voted 68-31 to support President Joe Biden’s renomination of Rosenworcel, whose second term expired earlier this year and would have been required to step down from the FCC at the end of the month without a confirmation vote. Without a confirmation vote this month, Republicans would have held a 2-1 majority at the FCC at least temporarily while the Senate considered the nominations of Rosenworcel and Gigi Sohn to fill the Democrat vacancies on the five-member commission…
Richmond, Va. and San Rafael, Calif. – First Arriving, a leader in technology for public safety and local government, and Tablet Command, a leading incident response and management solution provider, today announced they have collaborated to provide real-time dispatch information for First Arriving’s Digital Dashboards.
The partnership will provide Dashboard users with real-time dispatch information from Tablet Command including nature of call, address, units dispatched, call notes, turnout timer, ETA and distance, custom alert tones, maps and ESRI layers. There are more than 100 integrations and features available through First Arriving’s dashboards for large display screens, desktops and tablets…
EMS departments are struggling statewide, but officials say they’ve gotten worse in the last three months.
PENOBSCOT COUNTY, Maine — Across the state, many emergency medical services departments are critically short-staffed, and that problem only seems to be getting worse.
Dispatchers who answer 911 calls and send out EMS crews said they’re regularly sending ambulances outside of their coverage areas to help cover emergency calls.
Chris Lavoie, Penobscot Regional Communications Center director, said his dispatchers are frequently calling as many as seven different departments to find an available ambulance crew to send to a medical emergency…
CRESTVIEW — The largest piece of the funding mix to pay for a massive Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office emergency communications equipment project fell into place Tuesday.
That’s when the County Commission unanimously agreed to borrow $19.7 million from the Santa Rosa Beach branch of Trustmark National Bank to cover the bulk of the $26.5 million project. It could be completed by early to mid-2024….
City directors will hear an update concerning the Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) consolidation on Tuesday during the city board meeting.
In 2019, the state legislature adopted Act 660, which replaced the Arkansas Telephone Emergency Services Board with the Arkansas 911 Board, according to a staff report prepared by City Administrator Phillip Patterson on Nov. 30.
The act requires the board develop a plan by January of 2022 to provide funding for a limited number of PSAPs, which are generally referred to as state 911 call centers, the report states… READ MORE
