LOVINGTON — A fully consolidated emergency 911 center for Lea County appears on the horizon, looking at Jan. 10, 2022 for implementation.
All that’s left is for just about everybody else to approve it.
The board of county commissioners on Thursday gave unanimous nods individually to a total of eight resolutions aimed at expanding emergency dispatch for police, fire and EMS personnel through the Lea County Communication Authority…
Federal authorities have accused seven Philadelphia police dispatchers of filing fraudulent emergency pandemic unemployment claims that netted them a combined $73,000 in benefits before they were caught.
The dispatchers, all employed at the time they filed for benefits claiming they had lost their jobs, face charges of mail fraud and theft of public money outlined in separate indictments unsealed Monday.
Their scheme, according to investigators, began as early as May 2020 and ended in some cases as late as August of this year…
Since last week Friday, the Norwegian public safety emergency communication network, Nødnett, was down in several places in the south of Norway. This was caused by a severe storm.
Currently, the network availability of Nødnett has improved in several places in southern Norway, and coverage of Nødnett is on the way back, including in the Telemark region, which has been one of the areas affected by the storm, says department director Sigurd Heier in the Directorate for Safety and Emergency Preparedness ( DSB) at 13 o’clock on Monday.
Earlier on Monday, Heier explained that they followed the situation closely, and that there is an ongoing dialogue with local power companies and Telenor to restore normal operations. We also have our own ground crews out to correct any other faults that may have occurred at the base stations, Heier said…
LYNCHBURG, Va. (WFXR) — A 20-year-old dispatcher-trainee in Lynchburg is being recognized for her role in a life-saving phone call.
The dispatcher-in-training was able to coach someone on the other end of the line into resuscitating a patient before emergency crews arrived.
Due to dispatch protocols, WFXR News is not allowed to release her full name, but her co-workers call her Joyce…
St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones on Monday announced a plan to use $5.5 million that the city owes the State of Missouri as reimbursement for a 2018 wrongful conviction settlement to improve the city’s 911 system and support emergency responders.
The city and the state agreed to pay nearly $14 million to the family of George Allen, a Black man wrongly convicted of murder in the early 1980s. Allen died in 2016 after spending 30 years in prison for a crime he did not commit…
Lawrence County, Tennessee (WKRN) — In 2020, the Lawrence County 911 Center was hit by a malicious ransomware attack... What’s wrong? And how did the 911 team handle the cyber emergency? Andy Cordan returned to Lawrenceburg to talk to those who fought head-on with the threat.
The ransomware attack occurred in the spring of 2020 and began with a very alarming notice on the computer at the 911 Center’s workplace.
Marty Crum is the Operations Manager at the Lawrence County Emergency Communications Center. “Now I’m really sick and thinking” OK, we’re under attack. We are losing everything…
