On Dec. 6, Isabella County is switching to a new emergency management alert program called Smart 911.
“We made the move to switch from CODERED to Smart 911 because Smart 911 offers more integrations to the 911 center where we’re dispatching help,” said Isabella County 911 and Emergency Management Director McCarther Griffis. “It also lets the end user. the person signing up, customize what alerts they want to be alerted to, and how.”
That includes weather alerts like flooding or tornados, along with local alerts from Central Dispatch…
“They can select whether it’s watches or warnings they want to be no
WASHINGTON, November 15, 2021–– Experts at a Federal Communications Bar Association event earlier this month said the current funding allocation for next-generation 911 services is inadequate.
Currently, under the Joe Biden administration’s Build Back Better Act, the new 911 services – which will allow people to share videos, images and texts with 911 call centers – is allocated $500 million.
“It’s not enough to fully fund 911,” David Redl, CEO of consulting group Salt Point Strategies, said on the FCBA’s “What Comes Next in 911” panel on November 4. Redl was formerly the head of the Commerce Department’s telecom agency National Telecommunications and Information Administration…
Sanita Cheatham, the Augusta 9-1-1 Center’s Assistant Director, says details are one of the most important things you can tell dispatchers when you call 9-1-1, especially when it comes to a missing child. Some of those details include the last time the child was seen, what they look like, what they’re wearing, and their age, height, weight and hair color. “The more details that we can get is more details we can give those officers,” she says. “So whether they’re en route to the call, they may see this child or a similar description of this child, whether it’s on the side of the road or in someone else’s vehicle…
CHICAGO (WLS) — Some of Chicago’s Office of Emergency Management and Communications staff were honored for their extraordinary work Monday – including the dispatchers who were on the police radio when two officers were shot in August. Keith Thornton Jr. heard the 10-1 call meaning an officer needs help. “Number one priority is officer safety and when I heard those two officers were down I wanted those officers to the hospital right away,” Thornton said.
Thornton said his years of experience as a volunteer firefighter and a police officer prepared him for that moment… READ MORE
This story was reported by radio host Jason Rantz on Saturday. It’s a tragic situation which, according to people with knowledge of the case, could have been avoided if not for two things. First, the staffing crisis in Seattle meant there was a delay. Second, there was a mistake in the system which prevented help from entering the victim’s apartment immediately.
Here’s what happened. A 13-year-old called for help when he saw his dad was having a medical emergency. He placed the call at 1:24 pm and that was relayed to Seattle Fire within two minutes… READ MORE
VAN BUREN — Crawford County will look into building a new facility for its emergency dispatchers in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic.
The Crawford County Quorum Court approved a resolution expressing support for making a request for proposals to determine the feasibility of such a facility at its regular meeting Monday.
This comes after the Crawford County American Rescue Plan Committee approved a more than $1.07 million proposal by Joanie Best, the county’s director of 911 communications, to build a new facility for the county emergency communications center Nov. 2. This was despite concerns by committee members Roger Atwell and Jason Cox poised about the proposal’s cost…
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