by ECC Editor | Aug 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
Alamance County could get a new emergency management facility.
The state Senate budget includes money earmarked for the new emergency management center. If passed as is, the county will receive $7.5 million each year for the next two years for the facility, according to the budget obtained by The Insider.
This facility would aim to enhance emergency management capabilities by combining services that are now spread across the county. It would include the 911 communications center for Alamance County, the county fire marshal and emergency management offices. County Manager Bryan Hagood said the county has spoken with the city of Burlington about possibly housing its emergency management functions in the facility as well… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – Discussions are underway over finding a temporary home for a Brown County 911 communications tower.
It currently sits on the soon-to-be demolished Cofrin Library, which is located on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus. It’s one of seven towers in Brown County that emergency responders use.
“Without a tower, there are going to be coverage issues in the county, primarily probably in the city of Green Bay,” Cullen Peltier, the director of Brown County Public Safety Communications, said before members of the county’s Public Safety Committee on Tuesday. “Again, these are things the engineering study will tell us for sure…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
Safe Environment Engineering and FirstNet Expand First Responder Capabilities to Better Serve the City and County of Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — FirstNet® and Safe Environment Engineering are providing Los Angeles City Fire Department and Los Angeles County Department of Public Health with new capabilities and reliable access to critical information while in the field. These tech advancements allow first responders and other personnel who support them to better serve those who live, work and visit the city and county of Los Angeles.
LAFD and Los Angeles County Department of Public Health are connecting its firefighters, first responders and other personnel to FirstNet – the only nationwide, high-speed broadband communications platform dedicated to and purpose-built for America’s first responders and the extended public safety community. LAFD uses FirstNet on frontline apparatus, vehicles, modems, routers, and department-issued smartphones, while LA County Department of Public Health Radiation Management use FirstNet services on smartphones…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
BATH — Tim Marshall has seen a little bit of everything during his near-quarter century in the Steuben County Emergency Services program, managing local disaster scenes, aiding relief efforts at the World Trade Center in the aftermath of 9/11, and leading the local response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, Marshall is in the midst of a new challenge after the Steuben County legislature appointed him the county’s first director of public safety last week. Marshall is now overseeing both the emergency services and 911 departments, which have been combined under a single director…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
FAYETTE, Iowa (KWWL) – The city of Oelwein no longer has its own 911 dispatch center. The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office now handles all emergency calls for the entire county.
“Actually I think it’s going very smooth,” Fayette County Sheriff Marty Fisher said.
Dispatchers have been taking calls from Oelwein since June. There are seven full-time employees that will soon turn into nine.
Adding Oelwein, one of the largest cities in the county has doubled the workload for dispatchers at the county level.
“We saw probably here, for Fayette County, would be about 2,500 emergency calls. Oelwein and their dispatch had approximately 2,300,” Sheriff Fisher said…
by AllThingsECC.com | Aug 6, 2021 | Comm Center News
ELLSWORTH – Pierce County 911 dispatcher and Jailer Sgt. Sandy Larson is retiring after 36 years with the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department; her official last day is Aug. 4.
Larson started dispatch and working in the original jail when the two operations, dispatch and jail duties, were in the same building location adjacent to the courthouse. She would do both jobs during her shifts and the days would consist of many responsibilities and long hours.
After the new sheriff’s department/jail opened on Overlook Drive and the dispatch and jail split, she decided to continue with just being a Jailer Sergeant, where she was responsible for looking after and taking care of the inmates at the county jail…(WI)
