by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 7, 2021 | Comm Center News, Opinions
We, the undersigned, are writing to express our concern about the recent decision by the Berkeley City Council, the City Manager, and the Berkeley Police Department to use encrypted public safety radio devices in Berkeley.
It is our understanding that the City of Berkeley selected the company, Motorola Solution, to provide encrypted public safety radio devices for two reasons: 1) there is no alternative radio device to share communications with neighboring police units, and 2) the company would provide a discount to this city. We now understand that these reasons are false…
by ECC Editor | Nov 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
VANCOUVER –
The union representing B.C.’s 911 dispatchers says funding is crucial to stopping the system’s potential “catastrophic failure.”
In recent months E-Comm, B.C.’s multi-municipality agency that connects 911 callers to the proper emergency service provider, has faced longer-than-usual wait times for those needing emergency help.
E-Comm explained previously that the waits are largely due to staffing shortages with B.C. Emergency Health Services, and that when a caller can’t get through or is put on hold when calling 911, it may be because a dispatcher is waiting with a previous caller for a BCEHS counterpart to answer the phone… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
FirstNet Network Expands in Camden and Salem Counties to Advance Public Safety Communications Capabilities in New Jersey
New Infrastructure Will Help Advance Public Safety, Improve Connectivity for Area Residents and Visitors
Trenton, NJ, Nov. 3, 2021
What’s the news? South Jersey’s first responders are getting a major boost in their wireless communications thanks to the FirstNet® network expansion currently underway by AT&T*. We’ve added new purpose-built cell sites in Camden and Salem Counties. These new sites are giving first responders on FirstNet – America’s public safety network – access to always-on, 24-hours-a-day priority and preemption across voice and data…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
The Jennings County Amateur Radio Association is raising money to help with rehab and build out of a radio tower in Freetown Indiana. This will go towards providing last line of defense communication support to the residents and public safety agencies of Jennings County and South Central Indiana in the event of current public safety communications system overload or failure.
“We are skilled at composing and relaying messages by voice and through computer via Amateur Radio communications modes. Our group will support emergency activities ranging from equipment logistics, victim location and identification, emergency shelter, food and water information, medical equipment and material distribution and sometimes life-and-death communications…
by ECC Editor | Nov 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
CLEVELAND (WJW) – The FOX 8 I-Team has found people calling for an ambulance in Cleveland because they can’t sleep or their shoes are too tight.
Still, paramedics get sent.
So, the I-Team investigated what this means for you when you have a life-threatening emergency. We’ve recently exposed delays as people had to wait for an ambulance in Cleveland even with patients dying.
We uncovered 911 calls that are not what you expect to hear when people say they need an ambulance… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 5, 2021 | Comm Center News
KINGSTON, N.Y. — Ulster County Executive Pat Ryan on Thursday outlined his plan for the construction of a state-of-the-art emergency management and government operations facility, saying in a press release that the facility will centralize critical functions from across county government “in a hardened and energy self-sufficient structure.”
The new Ulster County Public Safety Communications Center will include the Ulster County Emergency Operations Center (EOC)/Government Operations Center (GOC), all the divisions of the Ulster County Department of Emergency Services, and the County’s Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), Ryan said…
