Jen Beal monitors information Thursday during her shift inside the Lewiston-Auburn 911 Center in Auburn. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal
AUBURN — County taxes in Lewiston and Auburn help pay for the Androscoggin County emergency dispatch center, but the service is not offered to the Twin Cities residents.
In addition to subsidizing the county’s emergency communication center, Lewiston-Auburn residents pay for their own 911 center.
Under a proposal brought forward by Androscoggin County Sheriff Eric Samson and Paul LeClair, the director of Lewiston-Auburn Emergency Communications System, the two facilities would merge under the county’s jurisdiction…
Macomb County has completed work on a new training center that will help prepare new dispatchers for emergency work.
The center was opened in April at the Macomb County Emergency Management and Communications Technical Services Building on Dunham Road in Mount Clemens. It will provide innovative training programs to police, fire and EMS dispatch workers through live scenarios and state-of-the-art technology. The center will work in partnership with the Public Service Institute at Macomb Community College, where students will complete classwork before utilizing the center for additional training. Dispatchers enrolled in the college’s Basic Emergency Telecommunicator Course will also be able to utilize this center as part of their program…
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) – The Mid-South has its share of severe thunderstorm warnings in a give year. The National Weather Service plan to better communicate the severity and potential impacts from severe thunderstorm wind and hail by adding a “damage threat” tag to Severe Thunderstorm Warnings starting July 28th, 2021. Severe Thunderstorms deemed “destructive” will activate a Wireless Emergency Alert (WEA) on smartphones.
Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEAs) are short emergency messages from authorized federal, state, local, tribal and territorial public alerting authorities that can be broadcast from cell towers to any WEA‐enabled mobile device in a locally targeted area. Wireless providers primarily use cell broadcast technology for WEA message delivery. WEA is a partnership among FEMA, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and wireless providers to enhance public safety…
Washington D.C.’s 911 center is faced with a severe staffing shortage as violent crime surges in the nation’s capital.
Last week, only 50 percent staff availability led the emergency agency’s interim director, Cleo Subido, to implement mandatory overtime, as first reported by STATter911.
“We are committed to following the rules and being transparent about it,” Subido wrote to employees. “Anything that gets in the way of us improving performance, treating each other with respect, providing our responders and constituents with the care they deserve, or meeting the objectives of our mission — I will handle without delay…
As calls from other first responder organizations filtered into the employee wellness team at the Brandon Police Service, it became abundantly clear to Const. Amanda Conway that more support for these groups was needed.
“I had the idea of making a multi-organizational team, a multi-agency team where just the representatives from the first responder organizations within the city and the local area, get together and discuss what they were doing, come up with ideas, do some promotion and share ideas,” Conway said.
Conway approached Cpl. Annalisa Dey-Thomas, who was the wellness officer for the RCMP in D Division at the time.
Together, they created Project Resilience 911. The organization was born out of the first responder organizations approaching Conway wanting to partake in what the employee wellness team was doing at Brandon Police Service…
Decision-making. We all have our methods, but how can you be sure you’re not making decisions that leave a better choice on the table? When budget dollars are tight and expectations are high, it helps to get critical procurement decisions right the first time, and the best way to accomplish that is to truly understand your choices.
Optimizing technology in order to meet the expectations of your citizens and administrators is no longer optional. The slow burn of technological advancement within public safety has hit what might best be described as the powder keg of progress. With it comes stiff competition for your precious budget dollars and an inherent expectation your team is already leveraging every technological advantage most 12-year-olds use every day. When it comes to under-utilizing readily available technology to best serve, “I didn’t know about it” will not be a defense…
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.
