by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 31, 2020 | Comm Center News
The emergency dispatch service for the Graham police and fire departments on New Year’s Eve is moving to Burlington.
Alamance County has two centers that dispatch responders when someone calls 911. Burlington has an emergency communications center at the Burlington Police Department that previously only dispatched police and fire department responders for the city. The other emergency communications center serves the rest of Alamance County…
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 30, 2020 | Comm Center News, Opinions
For more than 40 years, Jeff Danker has worked to protect people. For the last 28 years, he has done much as the sheriff of Pottawattamie County.
During that time, he and his staff have worked diligently to make sure the county stayed current with the technological times. This includes applying for grants for new equipment and making sure his staff had the necessary, up-to-date training it needed to provide the best services to the community. In 2007, he and his department assumed command of the 9-1-1 Communications Center and oversaw the implementation of the countywide 800-megahertz public safety communications project…
by ECC Editor | Dec 30, 2020 | Comm Center News
This year, during a world-wide pandemic, Shawnee Communications Center processed thousands of calls for emergency assistance. Some of these calls for help were familiar, while others were new in nature and the way in which they were processed to maintain the safety of the scene responders and the citizens. Throughout the year, several telecommunicators were recognized for their efforts in saving lives and making 9-1-1 services better for the community… READ MORE
by AllThingsECC.com | Dec 30, 2020 | Comm Center News
The City of Ferris has shifted their 911 dispatch service to Ellis County after three of their four dispatchers have been diagnosed with COVID-19. One of those to become ill, Mike Atwell, died earlier this month. “In a small community like this it impacts everybody when we lose somebody like…
by ECC Editor | Dec 30, 2020 | Comm Center News
The Flathead County commissioners passed a resolution recently establishing a special taxing district for the Flathead Emergency Communications Center, meeting the requirements of a ballot measure voters passed in November to increase funding for 911 services and equipment.
Since 2009, the communications center has been run jointly by the county, Whitefish, Columbia Falls and Kalispell, with the three cities contributing funding for dispatch services. The commissioners’ resolution sets Dec. 31 as the expiration date for that arrangement… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Dec 30, 2020 | Comm Center News
Men and women inside the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office communications center field more than 500,000 emergency calls per year. Helping people respond to crises and dispatching deputies to the scenes have been at the core of the responsibilities of about 40 dispatchers who work in the basement of the county Law Enforcement Center on McGee Road.
Now an effort eight years in the making to move the call center into a joint facility with Greenville County Emergency Medical Services has County Council backing after a new resolution was passed Tuesday… READ MORE
