by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 28, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
DIU test portable private 5G network for responders
To improve communications for public safety, the Defense Innovation Unit announced a year-long test of a private, portable, wireless 5G network for first responders in California, including the California National Guard.
With DIU’s solution, the responders arriving first at a remote incident can launch a private cellular network using a vehicle-mounted, backpack, hand-carried or wearable node, said Jeff Kleck, director of the Cyber and Telecommunications Portfolio at DIU. It will free them from reliance on legacy radios or expensive satellite phones and give them access to networked applications such as push-to-talk voice, geolocation and live maps of their surroundings…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 28, 2021 | Comm Center News
National First Responders Day is Thursday.
The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance and the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board “recognize the bravery, heroism and commitment to training by Tennessee’s emergency communicators on National First Responders Day,” a news release said.
“On National First Responders Day, the TECB honors Tennessee’s public safety telecommunicators and call-takers for their professionalism and dedication to protecting the lives and property of Tennesseans,” TECB Executive Director Curtis Sutton said in the release…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 28, 2021 | Comm Center News
A senior executive at British Columbia’s emergency dispatch agency had expressed concern about the shortage of personnel that killed more than 500 people until a year before the historic heat dome in June. An email released through a request for freedom of information shows.
According to an internal email released by BC Liberals this week, senior e-commerce leaders were discussing ways to raise concerns about 911 call latency and long ambulance response delays.
The email indicates that at one point the e-commerce boss was so frustrated that he considered holding a press conference to appeal directly to the government…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 28, 2021 | Comm Center News
TRENTON — So that’s why legislators don’t want to pay.
As Trenton faces a looming deadline to fork over $218K to MPS Communications in unpaid bills, a new report points to 345 incidents when communications between first responders was “negatively impacted.”
At least 79 of those occurred since January 2020, after MPS Communications installed a third telecommunications tower to address longstanding issues with the system, according to a 232-page report issued by HHW Group, a Basking Ridge technology consultant firm hired by the city last year to evaluate the aging emergency radio system…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 28, 2021 | Comm Center News
When someone is choking, what do you do? What if there’s a fire? Or gunshots at the neighbor’s house? What if someone is about to deliver a baby?
We don’t blame you if you wouldn’t know how to properly handle even one of those scenarios. But for 911 dispatchers, they have to know what to do — and how to give someone the proper instructions, all done over the phone without the benefit of eye contact and hand gestures.
Working as a 911 dispatcher is no ordinary job, as you’ll see in Oxygen’s upcoming series “911 Crisis Center,” premiering Saturday, November 6 at 9/8c on Oxygen. The show takes place at the dynamic Chagrin Valley Dispatch, a nationally regarded emergency call center in Bedford, Ohio…
by AllThingsECC.com | Oct 28, 2021 | Comm Center News
Lucas County, Ohio — The area around the Sylvanian Police Station is very quiet.
As of October 26, it is one of three regions in the Lucas County region that has already postponed 911 dispatch calls to the Lucas County Emergency Services Building in downtown Toledo.
“That is, neither from Maumee nor from the city of Toledo, there is no need to transfer the call and it will not be transferred to the wrong location. It will always be transferred to one centralized location throughout the county…
