Cherokee County 911 is requesting your help to further enhance their capabilities by obtaining Emergency Contact Information. Day after day alarm companies are calling in alarm activation’s such as burglar alarms, fire alarms, and medical alarms. Once law enforcement or emergency service arrive on-scene, oftentimes they need to make contact with a key holder but in most cases that information isn’t available. This creates many issues especially if a door is found unsecured at a residence or business or if EMS is needing to make entry inside a residence because someone has fallen and the door is locked. Law enforcement and emergency services respects your property and doesn’t want to cause unnecessary damage by forcing entry if a key holder is available to quickly respond… READ MORE
Petersburg police are now able to receive text messages to 911 from some people with cell phones.
Police chief Jim Kerr said this text-to-911, as it’s called, went live Tuesday for customers of AT&T. It won’t be available for cell phone users with GCI service until later this summer.
“Just like you’re going to send a regular text message, you text 911 and then you put your message in like you would anything else and you can have a text message conversation with my dispatchers so that they can get help on the way to you,” Kerr explained Wednesday…
COLUMBIA – Multiple Boone County health organizations are coming together to educate and arm the public with tools to improve the survival odds of cardiac arrest.
MU Health Care, Boone County Joint Communications, Boone Health Ambulance Service, Boone County Fire District, Columbia Fire Department, and the Southern Boone County Fire Protection District held a demonstration of the new PulsePoint app, which is supposed to help improve cardiac arrest survival rates, Thursday afternoon…
(CNN) — More than a dozen cities are developing “alternative” or “co-response” programs to minimize or eliminate the role of police officers responding to 911 calls involving mental health, homelessness, or substance abuse.
Thirteen cities just finished an eight-week “policy sprint,” coordinated by advocacy groups Everytown For Gun Safety and What Works Cities. The goal was for cities to develop pilot programs or to nudge cities along that have already explored this model of 911 response. A handful of others are testing out programs on their own…
FCC Secures Life-Saving Commitments From Wireless Carriers To Deliver 9-1-1 Vertical Location Information Nationwide.
Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel this week announced agreements with America’s three largest mobile phone providers to begin delivering vertical location information in connection with 9-1-1 calls nationwide in the coming days. This information will help first responders quickly locate 9-1-1 callers in multi-story buildings, which will reduce response times and ultimately save lives…
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.
Federal Communications Commission Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel this week announced agreements with America’s three largest mobile phone providers to begin delivering vertical location information in connection with 9-1-1 calls nationwide in the coming days. This information will help first responders quickly locate 9-1-1 callers in multi-story buildings, which will reduce response times and ultimately save lives…
