For immediate releaseHOLBROOK — Director Steve Hooke is pleased to announce that the Holbrook Regional Emergency Communications Center will be adding the Abington Police Department to its list of partner agencies.
The HRECC will begin dispatch services for the Abington Police Department in Fiscal Year 2022, and will also acquire the Abington Public Safety Answering Point…
PITTSBURG, KS — The City of Pittsburg and Crawford County have partnered to purchase a new state-of-the-art emergency call handling and management system that will allow residents to text urgent alerts to 9-1-1.
For the last two years, the city and county have collaborated to replace antiquated telephone systems with a Next Gen 9-1-1 solution based on Internet Protocol, which are designed to keep up with the rapidly evolving communication habits of today, such as mobile calling, texting, sharing data, and more… READ MORE
GRATIOT COUNTY, Mich. (WJRT) – Gratiot County Central Dispatch is using a new tool to help locate 911 callers faster and easier.
The county is adopting the what3words system to find people who may not know their exact location when the call 911 for help. The international system has divided all of the Earth’s surface into 10-foot squares and assigned each a combination of three words for an address…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A text to 911 is handled a lot like a 911 emergency call, said Tony Mangan of the South Dakota Department of Public Safety.
Mangan, the communications director for the DPS, said “9-1-1 texts will route based upon geographic location and pre-established boundaries, similar to how voice calls to 9-1-1 are routed”…
A Brooklyn mother welcomed her newborn son inside their apartment with a hand — four, actually — from two NYPD officers, with all involved left a bit stunned by the unexpected arrival. Little Kanan Mckoy weighed in at 7 pounds, 12½ ounces after his healthy Friday morning debut in Bensonhurst.
The partners, the first two responders on the scene, were soon taking directions from an FDNY dispatcher as Kanan made his memorable entrance… READ MORE
CANFIELD, Ohio (WKBN) – On Saturday, the community said goodbye to a Canfield man who served there as a dispatcher for the Ohio State Highway Patrol for the last 13 years.
Anthony T.J. D’Apolito died early Wednesday morning after an apparent heart attack while he was working… READ MORE
