by ECC Editor | Sep 24, 2021 | Comm Center News, Uncategorized
The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) has a busy agenda planned for its upcoming September 30, 2021 Open Meeting, which will include two items aimed at stopping illegal robocalls.
First, the FCC will consider a Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Further Notice”) on Shielding 911 Call Centers from Robocalls. With this Further Notice, the FCC attempts to reduce autodialed robocalls to Public Safety Answering Points (“PSAPs”) while addressing concerns about potential security threats that arise from providing broad access to the numbers on the PSAP Do-Not-Call (“DNC”) registry. It would accomplish this by requiring autodialer users to provide their outbound numbers to voice services providers who would be required to block calls from those numbers to numbers on the PSAP DNC registry… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 24, 2021 | Comm Center News
This year at the annual conference, the Tennessee Emergency Number Association (TENA) recognized the Wayne County E911 Center by presenting 911 Director Jimmy Turnbow and Sheriff Shane Fisher with the TENA “Dispatch Event of the Year” award which recognizes the hard work, professionalism and dedication a 911 center displays during a critical incident.
The TENA awards committee reviewed all incidents that were submitted to them, and after review, chose Wayne County to receive the award to recognize the lifesaving efforts displayed on a call that involved a young Wayne County boy in February of 2021…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
Duggan hired as new EMA director
DOVER-FOXCROFT — Those involved in upgrading the county’s public safety radio system agree that improvements are needed, but the question is how the near $5 million cost will be covered.
One option may be to put the project out to bond on the November 2022 ballot, as was discussed during a Piscataquis County Commissioners meeting on Sept. 21
“As you know we had the consultant come up and review our radio system and talk to the fire chiefs,” Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office Chief Deputy Todd Lyford told the commissioners, with representatives of the Brownville, Dover-Foxcroft, Milo and Monson fire departments in attendance…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 23, 2021 | Comm Center News
“911, what’s the location of your emergency?”
That’s the question Ryan Tunks could be heard asking Thursday from his work station on the second floor of the Kenai Peninsula Borough’s Emergency Response Center. Eyes flitting between six different computer screens while radio chatter echoed around the room, he’s a shift supervisor and one of four dispatchers on duty Thursday morning fielding emergency, administrative and accidental 911 calls made by Kenai Peninsula residents that day.
The ERC building, tucked quietly behind the Soldotna Police Department near Safeway, responds to calls from all over the Kenai Peninsula Borough, including every 911 call made from a cellphone in the borough and every landline 911 call not made in Kenai, Homer or Seward…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 23, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Over the last two decades, the emergency-management community has recognized that natural disasters and other emergency situations don’t always follow county lines or town borders. Interagency collaboration is vital—mutual-aid agreements expand the capacity of first responders, for example, and data-sharing solutions can give local telecommunicators regionwide data at the click of a mouse button.
One such cloud-based advancement scheduled to soon be released by the New York-based emergency technology company RapidSOS, the Emergency Data Exchange, will enable real-time interoperability (the ability of computer or software systems to exchange information) through digital automation—even if different centers aren’t using the same programs or devices…
by AllThingsECC.com | Sep 23, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
By Bruce Fitzgerald, Senior Public Safety Advisor, Emergency Management, First Responder Network Authority
September is National Preparedness Month(link is external), an important reminder for Americans to prepare for disasters and emergencies. The 2021 theme is “Prepare to Protect. Preparing for disasters is protecting everyone you love.”
In public safety, every month is Preparedness Month. One of the best ways for the public safety community to prepare for emergencies and disasters is with FirstNet, the nationwide public safety broadband network.
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