A state lawmaker will propose legislation for the 2022 session recognizing 911 dispatchers as first responders and supply them help for instances of post-traumatic stress disorder. Rep. Bill Wesley, R-Ravenna, said he will be sponsoring the Lifeliner’s Act, to help...

TACOMA, WA — A plan nearly a decade in the making has come to fruition with the grand opening of South Sound 911's new Public Safety Communications Center. Technically, the center has been up and running since July, but it wasn't until this Monday that South Sound 911...

A multitude of agencies can be involved in emergency response situations, but the first people to answer are always the same: call dispatchers. “We answer the first calls from the public when they have an emergency,” said Kris Fox, Brazos County 911’s communications...

DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ore. - The Douglas County Sheriff's Office has been notified by Lumen Technologies & Reliance Connect of a fiber line cut near Cottage Grove that is impacting telephone service and disrupting the ability of those affected to dial 9-1-1 from their...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Motorola Solutions (NYSE: MSI) today announced that the company will modernize and expand the coverage of the existing nationwide TETRA network in Romania to provide the country's public safety organizations with highly resilient and secure...

Here are the top stories today in Pawtucket: Rhode Island is suffering from a serious emergency dispatcher shortage. While the national average turnover rate for dispatcher positions is 15 to 20 percent, the regional dispatch center for Pawtucket and North Providence...

Both the Ottumwa City Council and Wapello County Board of Supervisors will receive a presentation for a new computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system that would tie in all the county's emergency personnel together. County emergency manager Tim Richmond, Ottumwa Police...

During the Pike County Fiscal Court meeting on Oct. 19, Pike County Emergency Management Director Doug Tackett informed the court that his department had been turned down by the National Homeland Security and by Kentucky Homeland Security for grants to upgrade the...

An Allentown man and his 14-year-old nephew died in a fire in July 2020 because a Lehigh County 911 dispatcher did not understand his pleas for help in Spanish and hung up the call, a federal lawsuit by a group of former dispatchers alleges. The seven...

MARATHON COUNTY, Wis. (WAOW)-- A new cell tower is bringing new opportunities to rural Wisconsin.   Marathon County partnered with Bug Tussel, a wireless high-speed internet provider to bring a new cell tower to Little Chicago. ...

SACRAMENTO, CA – “There’s somebody trying to break into my house, it looks like one person, please send someone,” said a frantic Sacramento County resident during a recent 911 call. Every year, more than 850,000 calls are made to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s...

Delta’s police department is hoping to eventually set up its own dispatch service for non-urgent emergency calls – if a couple of stumbling blocks could be cleared. During a discussion about E-Comm at the Delta Police Board on Wednesday, Oct. 20, Chief Neil Dubord...

Ramsey County 911 operators could soon dispatch social and mental health workers, child welfare staff and even nonprofit employees to crisis calls, in one of the most dramatic transformations of the emergency call system since its inception half a century ago. At a...

A method of calling for assistance on Oklahoma highways is being retired. For almost three decades, drivers of Oklahoma’s highways have been able to call *55  for assistance. The number was previous implemented in 1992 as a cellular service that would,...

As San Patricio County continues to grow in leaps and bounds, so does its needs for first responders and upgraded equipment. Located in the middle of industrial growth in Sinton and Portland is Taft, which currently has 12 employees and serves 233 square miles. With...