BISMARCK, N.D. (KFYR) – As part of a statewide radio upgrade for emergency first responders, the Central Dakota Communication radio equipment will get a second life with a new department.
As portable radios are decommissioned throughout the year, they will be turned over to the Bismarck and Mandan public works department for second hand use…
A report by Ryan Strategies Group, a company hired by the city to review the incident and response, blamed a 20-minute delay in responding to the Slavin home on “little or no communication” between police and fire during at the time of the incident, as well as each department’s operating in its own “communications silo.”
Taunton Police Lt. Eric Nichols said that back when the stabbings happened, the two departments handled dispatching separately. If you called 911 in Taunton, the call would go to the fire department, and they would transfer the call to police if it was a police matter…
Durham, N.C. — The Durham Emergency Communications Center is routing calls through Raleigh, but officials say it isn’t causing delays in response times.
In a statement, the DECC said it continues to use alternate routing to the Raleigh-Wake Emergency Communications Center so that all 911 calls in Durham are answered in a timely fashion.
The DECC was staffed with dispatchers throughout the evening on Saturday, May 8, but calls were initially answered by call-takers in the Raleigh-Wake Emergency Communications Center for seven hours due to unplanned absences in the DECC…
FARGO — Area cities and counties served by the Fargo-based regional 911 dispatch center are forming a task force to develop plans for a new or remodeled facility by the end of this year.
The current facility for the Red River Regional Dispatch Center, which serves Fargo, Moorhead, West Fargo, Cass County and Clay County, has become crowded and faces safety concerns, according to local officials.
The center will need four new dispatchers in the coming year and likely more down the road as the area’s population continues to grow, Cass County Commission Chairman Chad Peterson said at a meeting last week…
Baltimore, Maryland, will launch a new program this summer to direct some emergency calls to mental and behavioral health professionals, Mayor Brandon Scott announced on Friday. The program, the mayor said, is intended to help “people in crisis” who call 911, and allow the police “to spend more time focusing on violence.”
“Approximately 13,000 calls come into our 9-1-1 system each year for people in crisis. Baltimore is home to world-class medical institutions, and we have an opportunity to deliver premier clinical care and supportive services to residents experiencing behavioral health and substance use crises,” Scott said… READ MORE
Mary-Kate Smith was out kayaking off the coast of Connecticut last August when she overturned.
“I was very scared, didn’t know what to do, or where to go,” she says.
Only four months earlier another kayaker had drowned in the same area. That incident had alarmed the mayor of coastal city Stamford, who asked the local emergency services to look at new safety technologies.
Carbyne, a cloud-based emergency communication platform, was installed in August. It enables a 911 dispatcher to send a text message to the caller. This includes a link, which once opened starts a video chat…
