LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) – The Lincoln Police Department is investigating a series of fictitious emergency calls involving false reports of fires across the city at several homes and an LPS high school.
Over the past month, the 911 Emergency Communications Center has received at least eight hoax calls, including four since Monday afternoon.
The public wasn’t notified about a 911 outage until about three hours after problems began because the Honolulu Police Department was struggling to come up with an alternate means of communication, officials said Monday.
Police are investigating what caused the 911 outage and failure of the regular backup system.
A change in state law approved earlier this year complicated hiring for 911 dispatch centers, and state 911 officials are hoping legislators will address the issue in the coming legislative session.
She’s been a Fayette County 911 dispatcher and unsung hero for the past six years. When Bertha Blankenship took the call that her husband fell ill in 2022 it hit home and she decided to write a book about her dispatching experience.
Kevin Fisher has been a communicator with Dane County dispatch for 34 years.
Fisher has worked in dispatch for so long people in the office and out in the community started calling him “911 guy”
After years of missed deadlines and documented safety issues surrounding the rollout of California’s Next Generation 911 system, project insiders are now speaking out, saying they feel compelled to warn the public about “major problems” with the years-long overhaul that has cost Californians nearly a half-billion dollars and counting.
