PULASKI COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) -Pulaski County has received a grant that will give about 2,000 of its residents better, or in some cases, new access to broadband. “The need couldn’t be any larger than right now," said Pulaski County Administrator Jonathan Sweet. Sweet...

Columbia Community Relations Director Steve Sapp will retire Jan. 14 after 41 years of service to the city.  "My entire career has been dedicated to public service and to the residents of mid-Missouri," Sapp said in a news release Wednesday. He first started...

The city of Portland would hire a new public safety director, using funds drawn from the police, fire and emergency communications bureaus for the $300,000 position under a proposal that goes before the City Council on Wednesday afternoon. The new director would work...

CLEVELAND — October 28 is First Responders Day, and we want to take time to say thank you to all first responders. The work they do, truly saves lives. We talked to Ken Kostal, a local dispatcher who helped a father in Richmond Heights save his 1-year-old son on...

The Williamson County Association of Realtors treated county emergency management staff to lunch Wednesday from The Honey Baked Ham Company for National First Responders Day and recognized them for the work they do every day — particularly during the pandemic...

PARIS — The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office, the Regional Communications Center and the Oxford Emergency Management Agency could share space in a new building behind the new addition to the Superior Court building, according to a plan being developed by county...

ST. LOUIS — Places like New York, Houston, Baltimore and Tucson, Arizona are bringing mental health workers into the fold when it comes to answering 911 calls – and now, so is St. Louis. This month, the Board of Alderman approved a plan to take $860,000 away from the...

ELYRIA — Lorain County residents may now text 911 emergency dispatchers instead of calling them when calling might put them in more danger. Tracey Lopez, director of Lorain County 911, told Lorain County commissioners at their meeting Wednesday that emergency texting...

MADISON, Wis. — Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced Wednesday the new director for the county’s Department of Public Safety Communications. Luis Bixler was a former supervisor for the county’s 911 center and named 911 Telecommunicator of the Year for the state...

Berkeley Police Department has added text-to-911 services and improved 911 location identification services to its 911 communications center, according to a BPD press release. The two features will enable first responders to receive “more accurate information”...

West Monroe police officer Brittany LeJeune takes a phone call to the police department, speaking through a headset while facing four computer screens stacked like a wall above her. Sitting behind her in the same room, two 911 dispatchers receive emergency calls for a...

GREEN COVE SPRINGS – The of County Commissioners is looking at the purchase of three buildings for $8.7 million. The county has been working to navigate the federal and state pathways of the CARES Act to get funding to local nonprofits, businesses and individuals....

CRANBURY - V-COMM, a leading telecommunications engineering firm, was hired by Cape May County to continue the expansion of the county’s 700 megahertz (MHz) Project 25 (P25) system, in conjunction with New Jersey’s Public Safety Interoperable Communications...

This week we have Andrew Cafaldo, a 911 Dispatcher and Volunteer EMT in Ulster County NY. Andrew shares with us how he came to be in Emergency Services and what it is like to be on the other end of a 911 call or treating someone in need as an EMT. This was a great...

DISPATCH EXCELLENCE. When an emergency happens, most of us reach for the nearest phone. On the other end of that 911 lifeline is a dispatcher. As the first line in any emergency response team, these trained communicators must extract information from the frantic...

HYNDMAN — First responders in Hyndman are getting a major boost in their wireless communications with the addition of a new, purpose-built FirstNet cell site that AT&T turned on last week. The new site, announced in July 2018, is a part of the FirstNet network...

On Tuesday, Nov. 3, voters will be asked whether or not to pass a bond in the amount of $6.5 million to fund several projects as part of the Town’s capital improvement plan. Of these projects is a $2.2 million request to fund “communication infrastructure...

The St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office regrets to share the news that Norman Alexander Pilkerton Jr. passed away on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2020, at the age of 81. Pilkerton worked for the St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Office as a 911 emergency dispatcher for 34...

The San Ramon City Council is set to talk about the status of the City Hall renovation Tuesday evening, during which time city officials will also dedicate time to discussing the ongoing Public Safety Building Complex project. The City Hall reconfiguration is...