The Kenai Peninsula Borough will hire two borough employees to replace outgoing state employees at the Soldotna Public Safety Communication Center following a unanimous vote in support of the hire by the assembly during their April 20 meeting.
The SPSCC, which is located at the borough’s Emergency Response Center, consolidates the borough’s dispatch services and has historically been staffed both by borough employees and by employees from the Alaska Department of Public Safety. According to the resolution, the borough is in the process of negotiating with the State of Alaska and other municipalities to transition the center to be entirely run by borough staff… READ MORE
Peter Matthews talks with chief and Western Fire Chiefs Association Technology Advisor Kim Zagaris and Paul Rigatti, engineer, Nextivity about Cel-Fi GO RED’s signal booster to improve connectivity. Cel-Fi GO RED, powered by Nextivity, is designed to increase connectivity for firefighters and other first responders while they operate in the field. The easy-to-deploy technology can be utilized to improve connectivity in buildings. Chief Zagaris shares how Cel-Fi GO RED is being utilized with FirstNet and provides a critical updates on the public safety communications network…
NIST’s Public Safety Communications Research (PSCR) Division has awarded $8 million to the Crisis Technologies Innovation Lab at Indiana University’s (IU) Pervasive Technology Institute to implement a prize competition aimed at developing indoor localization technologies that support first responders in a variety of mission types. The multi-phase challenge serves to build a community of experts in localization and public safety who can examine the potential myriad of solutions to this pressing issue. IU expects to officially launch the open competition in fall 2021…
We recently spoke with Bruce about how technology has changed incident management and how FirstNet will support the continued advancement of tools and resources for public safety.
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Bruce Fitzgerald joined the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) after more than 15 years in public safety and crisis management. He began his career at the Maine Emergency Management Agency where he served in several roles including homeland security grant coordinator and the State Emergency Management and Homeland Security Director…
Orange County’s Emergency Communications Center is preparing to add powerful new features to its 911 services in the form of NextGen 911. The system allows dispatchers to receive texts, images, videos and other vital information from callers during an emergency situation.
According to center director Chris Cord, NextGen 911 will enhance the current Smart911 program…
Two pedestrians, the officer and two others were hurt after patrol car and another vehicle collided while officer was responding to the false call.Something went wrong.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Buffalo man has admitted making a false 9-1-1 call that led to five people being hurt, including a police officer.
William Gray, 60, pleaded guilty to one count of falsely reporting an incident.
Shortly after noon on April 15 2020, a call came in of a person with a knife on Wyoming Avenue. A Buffalo Police officer, responding with lights and sirens collided with another vehicle while responding to the call on Main Street near Benwood Avenue resulting in injuries to two pedestrians… READ MORE
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.
