This week’s First Responder Appreciation is Austyn Merrill of Athens Township Fire Department and Litchfield Township, Bradford County Communications Center.
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The Larimer County commissioners voted Tuesday to contribute $250,000 toward completion of a backup dispatch center that will benefit emergency agencies across the county.
The Larimer Emergency Telephone Authority is creating the backup at its new offices at the 2534 development in Johnstown — a building that it shares with the Larimer County Emergency Operations Center that is expected to open this summer…
MCCORMICK COUNTY, SC (WFXG) – McCormick County is working to improve its EMS services. The current EMS building has a history of issues and is in constant need of repairs. And city leaders say nearly 10,000 residents in the area need better access to emergency services.
For many counties, growth and expansion is happening all the time. But in McCormick County, it doesn’t happen often, and isn’t often easy. The new EMS building project took nearly 20 years…
The city and county have been working for the past two years to replace old telephone systems with an internet-based 911 system. The new system provides everything that emergency dispatchers need to manage calls from any device in any format. Dispatchers at the Pittsburg Police Department and Crawford County Sheriff’s Office will be able to answer text-to-911 calls like any other call from their desktops. They also will be able to pinpoint landline and mobile calls…
Maureen Will made the final emergency communications center transmission out of 3 Main Street last week, formally closing the dispatch center’s original location.
The director of Newtown Emergency Communications Center (NECC, or “dispatch”), Will was waiting for all systems to be up and running on Tuesday, March 16, for each piece of equipment at 191 South Main Street to be checked, before going on the air with that final message from Town Hall South…
City administrator Jeff Broadwater presented the memorandum of understanding with Mineral County Emergency Services during the board’s business meeting. During the Mineral County Commission meeting Tuesday, President Richard “Doc” Lechliter signed off on it from the county’s end.
The subject of the merger, Broadwater said, is something that’s been in discussion sporadically for a decade. It will take effect July 1.
“It’s kind of come to a point where I think it’s in the best interest of the city to do it,” Broadwater said…
