CHICAGO (WLS) — The Archer Heights community celebrated two of its own Saturday, honoring Guadalupe and Maria Lopez by renaming a street after the couple who both lost their battles to COVID-19 last year.
“It feels good to feel a sense of community, just to have everybody here, you know,” said the couple’s son, Richie Lopez.
Richie and his brother Andy Lopez were joined by neighbors and the Archer Manor Little League during the honorary dedication…
OLATHE, Kansas (KCTV) — Olathe police and Johnson County dispatchers had to act fast Friday morning to save a wrong way driver who drove down train tracks as two oncoming trains came toward him near Northgate and Woodland Street.
Someone called 911 to report a driver was driving the wrong way on 119th Street around 4:50 a.m. Friday. Police found the driver right as they turned and started driving down the railroad tracks…
The Crawford County Quorum Court is looking for a 911 director for the upcoming consolidation.
Currently, the county has a 911 advisory board, but the board has appointed a committee made up of the county’s police chiefs, fire chiefs, EMS, and sheriff’s department.
Crawford County Judge Dennis Gilstrap said he hopes to appoint a 911 director to be in charge once the 911 dispatches of the county have been consolidated. The new director will become a county employee…
LETHBRIDGE, ALTA. — With travel restrictions and more people staying close to home as the COVID-19 pandemic lingers on, interest in cycling is exploding and bikes continue to be some of the hottest items available for purchase.
The Public Safety Communications Centre (911 dispatch) was just one of the groups that came together to help gift the city’s less fortunate children with a brand new bicycle…
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…
Following every major large-scale disaster – whether manmade or natural – public safety develops an after-action report. These are vital to helping ensure that we are even more prepared for the next major event. And if there was ever a year that deserved such assessment, it’s 2020.
Amidst titanic cultural shifts, health and safety threats and surrounding uncertainty, America’s first responders and frontline healthcare workers experienced a year unlike any other… And FirstNet®, Built with AT&T – the nation’s only communications network providing first responders with truly dedicated coverage and capacity when and where they need – was there to serve them. From supporting the first mass COVID-19 testing sites, as well as severe wildfires and one of the most active hurricane seasons on record, straight through to the siege on the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. on January 6, the past year has been the ultimate stress test for FirstNet.
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.
