Morgan County’s 911 Center was officially dedicated last Wednesday, May 5 during an outdoor ceremony that honored two men closely tied to emergency communications in the county.
County officials unveiled a wooden sign naming the facility the Michael-MacDonald 911 Center. A more permanent metal plaque will be installed by the county soon.
The center was named in part for the late Dave Michael, the county’s longtime 911 and Emergency Services director. Michael spearheaded the county’s build-out of radio towers and equipment to improve emergency communications in every corner of the county…
HOLBROOK — The Holbrook Regional Emergency Communications Center is pleased to announce that Director Stephan Hooke has been named International Director of the Year for 2021 by the Association of Public Safety Communications Professionals (APCO).
The award recipients, who represent public safety communications agencies across the country, have demonstrated the highest levels of professional conduct and outstanding performance in the line of duty…
Boulder County, Colo. – Public safety officials encourage Boulder County individuals and families to sign up for a free service that provides emergency responders with more information in the event of an emergency.
Smart911 allows people to create a Safety Profile for their household at www.smart911.com or on the Smart911 app that includes any information they want 9-1-1 and first responders to have in the event of an emergency. When a person makes an emergency call, their safety profile is automatically displayed to the 9-1-1 call taker, allowing them to send the right first responders to the right location with the right information…
The Dearborn Heights city council voted May 11 to keep the city’s emergency dispatch center, instead of joining Dearborn’s joint dispatch center, and to seek bids for equipment and upgrades.
Councilmembers Dave Abdallah, Zouher Abdel-Hak, Mo Baydoun, Denise Malinowski-Maxwell, Ray Muscat and Tom Wencel voted in favor of keeping dispatch in-house, while Councilman Robert Constan cast the sole opposing vote…
In a retrospective study of trauma patients over 65 years of age attended by KSS, it was found that, although a number of these patients had sustained a minor injury through seemingly innocuous mechanisms, a high proportion of this group required advanced clinical interventions and subsequent tertiary level care at a major trauma center.
The study also identified that dispatch time to these patients was typically longer, in particular in instances when KSS’s critical care was requested by an ambulance crew already in attendance…
DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) — It would seem Kadijia Smith would be the ideal fit for 911 operator in her hometown.The Durham native and NC Central University graduate with a degree in criminal justice said she hasn’t heard anything back from the multiple jobs she’s applied to within the city. Smith said she’s been applying for months now.
“We cannot get into the door,” Smith said. “We’re not getting the call backs we need, we’re not even getting the interview option.”Kadijia’s service might have helped Saturday night in the Durham Emergency Communications Center, where there was nobody working because of “unplanned absences,” according to the city of Durham…
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.
