With the busiest part of the hurricane season upon us, Swansboro commissioners are continuing discussion on the future of a town Emergency Operations Center. Most recently, at the meeting of Aug. 23, commissioners received a report from emergency services officials on the role of an EOC.
During Hurricane Florence in 2018, it became apparent that the Swansboro Public Safety Facility was inadequate to serve as an EOC for a storm event stronger than a Category 1 hurricane. Subsequent investigations by structural engineers have verified that…
Former Allegheny County 911 dispatcher Janine Lanese was sentenced Wednesday to probation for lying to law officers trying to find her husband, who was wanted in a California murder plot.
U.S. District Judge Cathy Bissoon imposed a term of two years on Lanese, including six months of home detention.
Lanese, of Brookline, had pleaded guilty in May to obstruction.
Her husband, Brad, had tried to hire a hitman to kill a former business partner in a California marijuana grow operation. When the law came to the Lanese house looking for Brad, she said he wasn’t there and didn’t know where he was… READ MORE
With both the city and county signed off on an interlocal agreement for a combined police and fire dispatch center, the real work begins to put that system together.
“It isn’t like you just say central dispatch and its there and in place,” said Daviess County Emergency Management Agency Director Scott Myers. “The words are one thing. Putting it together is another.”
The dispatch center will be going into the Daviess County Security Center, but Sheriff Gary Allison says he has limited say on what is going on…
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WTVQ) – A long-time Lexington dispatcher is the newest state winner of telecommunicator of the year.
“There were days, hard days, that I would go home crying and not want to come back,” award-winner and 911 Supervisor Heather Moncrief said.
She said this was her reality at the beginning of her career. It’s a story she tells dispatchers about her early years, so that they know the job gets better over time…
The future status of the 911 emergency communications division is somewhat of a side issue in the recently approved county investigation into allegations of wrongdoing in the Ontario County Sheriff’s Office.
Now, the communications division is part of the Sheriff’s Office, and it’s a busy place. In 2020, the 911 center answered 13,039 emergency medical calls and 4,105 fire calls, according to the Sheriff’s Office’s recently released annual report.
The Ontario County Board of Supervisors earlier in the month voted to create a task force to see if that department should stand alone, work independently from the Sheriff’s Office in some other way or keep the status quo…
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.
