by AllThingsECC.com | May 26, 2021 | Comm Center News
Communications board digs into Christmas bombing outage
In the wake of the Nashville Christmas bombing that disrupted regional telecom service, the Tennessee Emergency Communications Board (TECB) has been working with AT&T to ensure a more resilient 911 network.
When a bomb inside an RV parked outside AT&T’s downtown Nashville switching facility went off, it disrupted internet, phone and wireless services as far away as Kentucky and Alabama. The explosion caused voice and data service outages for 911 call centers, businesses, hospitals, the Nashville airport, government offices and individual mobile users. FirstNet, the nationwide, wireless public-safety broadband network operated by AT&T, was also affected…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 26, 2021 | Comm Center News
Newly released audio recordings detail the conversation between a Tulsa County dispatcher and a man armed with a gun, who barricaded himself inside his home with two other people last week in Berryhill.
The dispatcher convinced the man to put down his gun and surrender to Tulsa County Deputies. The 911 call shows that the dispatcher who handled the call was able to stay calm and build rapport with the suspect, Roger Gray, which made all the difference in keeping everyone safe.
Suspect: “Tell them to come in here.”
Dispatcher: “They are not going to come into the house. Because we don’t know what situation we are walking into….
by AllThingsECC.com | May 26, 2021 | Comm Center News
SPRINGFIELD — Tucked away beside the Effingham Health System complex is a small but vital piece of Effingham County’s first responder network — Lifestar.
Besides being able to get to an accident scene and then to a hospital quickly, Lifestar provide what amounts to an emergency room in a helicopter. Flight Paramedic Jeff Kuehn said it’s like bringing the emergency room to the patients.
When a call comes in through Lifestar dispatch, a team of three — a pilot, flight nurse and a flight paramedic — boards a helicopter and flies to the emergency site. Once there, they work alongside other first responders, whether law enforcement, firefighters or EMS…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 26, 2021 | Comm Center News
FALLS CITY – Richardson County commissioners may have found their answer to 911 dispatching dilemmas with the Southeast Communications 911 Center.
Commissioners expressed interest Tuesday in joining the 911 dispatching center in Beatrice to improve service and spread out the cost of upgrading to the next generation 911.
Commissioner John Caverzagie said Tuesday that negotiations with the Falls City City Council have stalled, but Sheriff Rick Hardesty continues to push for the elimination of the current process of calls going to the police station and then being transferred if the emergency is outside of city limits…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 26, 2021 | Articles, Comm Center News
A bipartisan Senate bill would direct the Federal Communications Commission not to sign off on any applications from companies on its national security threats list, including Huawei, after one of the commissioners pushed for a bigger crackdown on Chinese Communist Party-linked companies in the United States.The new legislation, the Secure Equipment Act of 2021, co-sponsored by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio and Democratic Sen. Ed Markey, would mandate that the FCC no longer review or approve business requests from entities on the FCC’s designated list, with the Senate offices saying this would “prevent further integration and sales” of Huawei and other Chinese state-backed firms inside the U.S. “regardless of whether federal funds are involved…
by AllThingsECC.com | May 26, 2021 | Comm Center News
Crestwood will lay off three employees in the turnover
Sunset Hills will start providing police dispatching services for neighboring Crestwood this July, after aldermen in both sister cities approved a contract this month that holds neither liable if things go wrong.
The Sunset Hills Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a $135,000 annual contract May 11 to provide police and 911 dispatching services for the Crestwood Police Department starting in July, while the Crestwood Board of Aldermen also unanimously approved the contract in a special meeting May 18.
The funds could be used for a pay matrix…
