ATLANTA – A power outage at the Atlanta Police Department’s E911 Communications Center has forced officials to move from the building for the second time this month.
Atlanta police said they were forced to move operations to Fulton County’s Center Monday. Police said the backup battery system was working to allow for the transition… READ MORE
Athens-Clarke County commissioners have voted to apply for a state grant to give public safety officers an additional $1,000 pay bonus.
This latest round of bonuses approved by the commission follows a vote in early November to provide $1,000 bonuses for all employees as well as a premium pay boost for select employees.
Commissioner Mariah Parker voted against the measure for public safety officers, while Commissioners Russell Edwards and Allison Wright did not vote…
The Town of Boone and Watauga County are among a number of recipients of grant funding from the North Carolina 911 board for equipment improvements.
Watauga Online reports $8.45 million has been granted to 12 local public safety answering points and $6 million for three statewide projects.
According to the report, the Boone Police Department will receive $252,565.43 and Watauga County will receive $154,130.86. The grants will fund improvements to 911 PSAPs, radio-and-dispatch equipment upgrades and creation of new PSAPs…
NORRISTOWN — Elyce Rivera, a 911 telecommunicator at the Montgomery County Department of Public Safety’s Emergency Communications Center in Eagleville, was getting close to the end of her overnight shift when the phone rang.
It was 6:41 a.m. on Oct. 27. A woman named Charlotte Fatoma was calling as she was driving stretches of Interstates 76 and 476 in Montgomery County. She had gone into labor and was on the way to the hospital. She sounded scared.
“I’m not going anywhere. I’m here with you. I’m going to take care of you [and] make sure everything’s OK,” Rivera recalled telling her…
Christopher Watts doesn’t know how much longer the staffing crisis among Michigan’s emergency medical service workers can continue before people call 911 and it’ll take too long for help to arrive, if it ever does at all.
It’s a systemic problem rooted in decades of under-funding that’s been exacerbated by the pandemic and threatens to dismantle an emergency safety net millions of Americans have depended upon in their most desperate times of need…
EFFINGHAM, Ill. — The Dieterich, Watson and Edgewood volunteer fire protection districts are not responding to EMS first responder calls.
Tina Daniels, 911 Systems Administrator and Effingham County Sheriff’s Department Communications Supervisor, said in an interview that three letters were sent to the Effingham County Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) from the Dieterich Fire Protection District, Watson Fire Protection District and Edgewood Bi-County Fire Protection District letting dispatchers know about their change of status…
