Question:What’s the status of Ripon’s dispatch transfer?Answer:After nine months of intensive work, the transfer of all Emergency Communications Services between the city of Ripon and Fond du Lac County Communications Center happened Tuesday.
“The transition has been made — fire, EMS and police,” City Administrator Adam Sonntag said. “We had a department head meeting [Wednesday], and all of them indicated that — short of a couple of hiccups, but nothing major — the transition went really smoothly.”
Members of the Ripon Police Department, Ripon Guardian Ambulance Service, Ripon Area Fire District (RAFD) and Fond du Lac County Communications have been working behind the scenes to ensure a smooth transition over the last nine months…
Spencer Merritt thought he was going to die. Voices in his head—angry, insistent voices—told him he’d been poisoned by Ivermex, an antiparasite drug prescribed for veterinary use that his mother kept in the house. Other imagined voices belonging to his mother and stepfather told him they had poisoned his beloved dog, Lulu, who had died a year earlier. He thought they were talking to him through hidden microphones and speakers, although he couldn’t find any in his room.
Merritt, 32, felt like he couldn’t breathe. He thought he was having a heart attack. His cluttered second-story bedroom seemed like a death trap, and he was terrified that his parents were going to kill him. He bolted up from the sofa he used as a bed, ran down the stairs and out the front door. It was 1 a.m. and he was wearing jogging pants and a blue bathrobe. Outside, on the streets, he paced and ran, falling to the ground several times as pain shot to his chest and voices echoed in his head. Maybe he was having a seizure, he thought…
FCC Commissioners Brendan Carrr and Nathan Simington say the agency is letting wireless carriers off the hook over 911 vertical location obligations after agreements with AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon were announced Thursday.
Vertical location, or z-axis, data provided to dispatchers is meant to help emergency responders find wireless 911 callers more quickly when they’re located in multi-story buildings like apartments or offices…
On May 27 he hung up his headset and retired after 36 years of working in the Somerset County Department of Emergency Services. Those years held many calls for Johnson, nicknamed “JJ,” including United Flight 93 crashing near Shanksville on Sept. 11, 2001, and the Salisbury tornadoes in May 1998.
Johnson worked for Somerset County 911 since Aug. 1, 1985, when he started as a part-time employee…
MONTICELLO – Sullivan County Public Safety Commissioner Rick Sauer has resigned from his position effective July 9 and will become the emergency services director for Sampson County, North Carolina.
Sauer served as Sullivan County commissioner of Public safety for the past 3 ½ years and for the past 30 years as a member of several different organizations including the State Police and Liberty Fire Department. “It has been a very difficult choice to move on, but I think it is the best decision for my family,” he said.
Sauer has served as commissioner since 2017, overseeing the 911 communications center, probation, emergency medical services, fire services and emergency management…
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