by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 23, 2020 | Comm Center News
EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ – The Township of East Brunswick has partnered with CivicReady for all Emergency and Township Notifications. The CivicReady Mass Notification System is a free communication service available to keep our residents, business owners, and the surrounding community informed of critical incidents and community information. The system will be used to issue urgent notifications, critical information, emergency instructions, public safety warnings, and other communications to subscribed users via phone call, text message and/or email…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 22, 2020 | Comm Center News
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Emergency responders in New Haven are mourning the loss of a 9-1-1 dispatcher. Angela Yoxall-Hurlburt dedicated her life, to helping others.
“She did her job with such eagerness, and such passion, it was infectious,” said Erika Bogan, a New Haven firefighter…
by AllThingsECC.com | Nov 22, 2020 | Comm Center News
Calls for service dispatched by the Garland County 911 Communications Center to first responders have increased since the county began dispatching volunteer fire departments in March 2019, the county’s Office of Emergency Management told justices of the peace last month.
Dispatchers have also been busy providing information for agencies, such as school districts in the unincorporated area of the county that commissioned their own police forces and the reconstituted Mountain Pine Police Department, who are not dispatch partners with the county…
by ECC Editor | Nov 21, 2020 | Comm Center News
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
Nine people at a Sacramento County fire dispatch center have tested positive for COVID-19, officials said Friday.
The outbreak happened at the Sacramento Regional Fire/EMS Communications Center, Executive Director Tyler Wagaman said in a statement… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Nov 21, 2020 | Comm Center News
PORT ANGELES – The local police and fire dispatchers are being heralded for work helping administer CPR to those who call 911.
Peninsula Communications, or PenCom, implemented Resuscitation Quality Improvement® Telecommunicator in August last year. The program prepares telecommunicators to deliver high-quality telephone CPR.
This week, the agency was recognized by RQI Partners and the Resuscitation Academy Foundation as a “Resuscitation Trailblazer”… READ MORE
by ECC Editor | Nov 21, 2020 | Comm Center News
County officials honored employees at 911 Communications Center for their work during a shooting rampage in Coffee County that left three dead and several wounded.
During the Nov. 10 county commission meeting, county commissioners recognized the employees of the Coffee County Communications Center for their response to the Sept. 13 incident, which started in Coffee County with Dangelo Dorsey opening fire inside a vehicle traveling on Interstate 24 near Beechgrove. The violent crime spree raged through Middle Tennessee, ending with three deaths, including that of the perpetrator… READ MORE
