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…
Officer Randolph ‘Scott’ Valdez (right) brought 5-year-old Charlie (left) a McDonald’s Happy Meal after he called 911 and asked for a Happy Meal
A hungry young boy in Arizona decided to called 911 to order a Happy Meal and the Mesa Police Department came to the rescue.
The Mesa Police Department say that 5-year-old Charlie called local 911 dispatcher, Anthony Bonilla, and sweetly asked if he was talking to McDonald’s.
‘Hi, is this McDonald’s?’ Charlie asks, according to audio from the call.
Bonilla said: ‘No, this is the Mesa Police Department. Do you have an emergency?’
‘Tôi có thể lấy một Mc-Happy Meal không?’ Charlie nói trước khi nhanh chóng cúp máy.
Nevertheless, to check whether or not there was an emergency happening at the boy’s home, Anthony later made a follow-up call and talked with Charlie’s father…
First responders in southern Minnesota are getting a major boost in their wireless communications thanks to the FirstNet® network expansion — a new, purpose-built cell site located just south of Faribault — currently underway by AT&T.
This FirstNet site will provide coverage when traveling along 260th Street West, Dalton Avenue and Canby Avenue just south of Faribault between Deerfield and Medford. It will also give first responders on FirstNet – America’s public safety network – access to always-on, 24-hours-a-day priority and preemption across voice and data…
Learn about current efforts to continue to protect the 4.9 GHz Band for public safety as well as recent filings, key decisions impacting these efforts, and how you can support PSSA’s initiative to protect the 4.9 GHz band for public safety.
