by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 27, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News, Press Release
TURLOCK, Calif., July 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Today, the MedicAlert Foundation, creator of the globally recognized medical ID system, announced a long-term strategic agreement with RapidDeploy, the industry’s leading cloud-native emergency response platform. Through the partnership, MedicAlert will deliver members’ critical health data to public safety dispatchers via the RapidDeploy platform.
MedicAlert members wear a medical ID and maintain an emergency health profile with their MedicAlert membership. The profile is a detailed personal health record that includes information on medical conditions, medications, allergies, vaccinations, medical devices, and patient instructions. It’s what MedicAlert relays to first responders when a MedicAlert member experiences an emergency…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 26, 2021 | Comm Center News
Why former calltakers are concerned about Austin 911 staffing shortage
AUSTIN (KXAN) – During the week of February’s winter storm, an urgent call came into Austin’s 911 center.
“There’s two gentlemen threatening to kill me,” said the caller, who told 911 operators he was calling from the Hilton Hotel at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.
“They’re standing outside the window with weapons,” the caller says in an audio recording…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 26, 2021 | Comm Center News
A new emergency communications tower is being planned for western Crawford County.
The Department of Public Safety is requesting county commissioners approve a 195-foot-tall tower to be built in Sadsbury Township.
The tower is proposed to be built on land owned by the township off Greiser Road, according to Greg Beveridge, the county’s public safety director.
It would provide better emergency radio coverage than the current tower located off Agnew Road near Dicksonburg, Beveridge told county commissioners at their work session last week…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 26, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Imageware Authenticate is the Only Biometric MFA Solution in the First Responders’ FirstNet App Catalog
SAN DIEGO, July 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Imageware® (OTCQB: IWSY) (“Imageware” or “the Company”), a leader in biometric identification and authentication, announced today that following a rigorous review process, its Imageware Authenticate solution is now FirstNet® Verified™ and accessible via the FirstNet App Catalog.
FirstNet is the only nationwide wireless broadband communications platform dedicated to America’s first responders and public safety community. Built with AT&T in a public-private partnership with the First Responder Network Authority, FirstNet brings innovative capabilities to public safety communications to strengthen first responders’ incident response and to help them connect to the critical information they need – every day and in every emergency…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 26, 2021 | Comm Center News
Curt Morimoto, operations manager for American Medical Response, stands outside the 911 ambulance provider’s Kahului headquarters last month. The Maui News / LILA FUJIMOTO photo
KAHULUI — After 45 years of working in emergency medical services, Curt Morimoto is calling it a career.
He is retiring as operations manager for American Medical Response, ending a job path that took him from Hilo to Seattle, then Honolulu, before he moved to Maui in 1984.
He worked as a paramedic on Maui for 10 years before becoming operations manager, or Maui County EMS chief, in 1994 when the company took over emergency medical services operations in the county under a state Department of Health 911 EMS contract…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 26, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
Mutual-aid agreements (MAAs) codify how agencies share resources. It may sound simple, but these standard documents are far more important than the basic definition implies and are not as “standard” as you might think. The MAA is a legal covenant, a promise between neighbors, a community’s pledge to another that says, “We will be there for you.”
MAAs epitomize the civil society that French aristocrat Alexis de Tocqueville saw as unique to the United States when traveling around the country in the early-1800s. His study of social conditions in his classic “Democracy in America” brought to light the premise that individuals, families, villages and towns working together were the grassroots of a new social order. He saw it manifest in churches, service groups, fire brigades and militias where freedom, safety and welfare were ensured more by small communities than by bureaucrats in distant capitals…
