by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
Each year, more than 350,000 heart attacks occur outside of hospitals. The American Heart Association says the chances of a person surviving a heart attack without medical attention are not good – only one in ten people survive.
The AHA has led efforts to expand CPR training for telecommunicators for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases. He lobbied the legislature to pass a new law that trains 911 call operators to recognize cardiac arrests, then guides passers-by, step-by-step, to administer chest-only CPR.
Emergency physician Dr Justin Northeim says many people don’t know how to administer CPR, so this training will reassure people and encourage them to take action…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
JOHNSTOWN –The Fulton County Emergency Management Office is proposing over $650,000 in capital projects for 2022 — projects involving upgrades for both the office and to the dispatch console.
Office Director Steven Santa Maria recently brought his proposed projects to the Board of Supervisors’ Public Safety Committee at the County Office Building. The committee voted to send the projects on the Capital Projects Committee for its review July 22.
Santa Maria recommended a capital project estimated to cost between $410,000 and $440,000. The project is to construct or renovate a building for the consolidated operation of the Emergency Management Office in one location. His main office is currently on Route 29…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
The Pueblo Fire Department’s average total response time increased last year to nearly 10 minutes, and the department leader said a growing service area and new dispatch system are the main reasons for the rise.
The total response time for all emergency calls — that is, the time from when the dispatcher picks up the phone to when the responders make it to the emergency — averaged 9 minutes, 53 seconds in 2020. That’s up from 9:29 in 2019 and 8:38 in 2018.
Their 2020 benchmark goal was 6:20.
“What’s really important is that the city is growing and there’s parts of the city that we can’t get to in the timeline we’d like to for 911 response. That was really critical,” said Fire Chief Barbara Huber…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
(ST. JOSEPH, Mo.) Six first responders from northwest Missouri are credited with saving a mother and her 18-month-old baby in mid April earlier this year.
The group was recognized at Missouri Highway Patrol Troop H Headquarters today.
The Missouri Association of Public Safety Communications honored four dispatchers and two Cameron police officers.
The six responded in the early morning hours of April 16, when a dispatcher in Harrison County received a call that a woman and her baby had been taken against their will…
by AllThingsECC.com | Jul 10, 2021 | Comm Center News
Many businesses on San Juan Island are struggling with being short-staffed, but the shortage of dispatchers makes for a dangerous situation.
Robin DeLazerda started her work as a dispatch officer on the island on Sept. 12, 2001 — the day after 9/11. She is currently working as a dispatch supervisor and also actively working as a dispatcher. When she sat in and observed dispatchers working, she knew that this was her calling, she said…
by ECC Editor | Jul 9, 2021 | Comm Center News
Leslie Cheatham is a person who has spent most of her life helping others, whether as a telecommunicator for the Town of Farmville, an EMT in her earlier years as a in Campbell County and Pamplin or as a community member who tries to quietly help others’ satisfy needs.
Cheatham joined the Town of Farmville eight years ago as a dispatcher. Now 49, she said she didn’t feel like she could spend as much time out in the field as an EMT as she used to, but being a dispatcher still keeps her involved with helping lives.
“I do miss being out in the field with the EMS, but I do enjoy being a telecommunicator also. I’m still able to be involved, just not so much hands on,” she said… READ MORE
