WAVY’s Jason Marks reports that Deputy City Manager of Public Safety Steve Cover will retire at the end of 2020. Cover, a Virginia Beach native, was appointed to the position in October 2016 by then-City Manager Dave Hansen. He had served as the city...

Los Angeles County continued its push Tuesday to re-think the 9-1-1 system, propelled by a care-first, jails-last approach to emergency calls for service across the region. The Board of Supervisors unanimously directed the Department of Mental Health to begin...

Pendleton County Emergency Management Dispatcher Angie Wright was awarded the Kentucky 911 Telecommunicator of the Year at the Kentucky Emergency Services Conference Awards Banquet.    “I am honored that I was chosen for this award by the APCO committee. I love my job...

WYTHEVILLE, Va. (WSET) -- A Virginia State Police Wytheville Division Dispatcher earned statewide honors at the VSP Superintendent's Award Ceremony. Dispatcher Alexander J. Dolinger was presented with the Virginia State Police 2019 Telecommunicator of the year award...

Cumulus Radio Bloomington has teamed up with Carle BroMenn Medical Center, to bring you a live, virtual Chase for Champions event on Thursday, October 29th. Chase for Champions is a community event centered around the service of Public Safety Responders in...

The Oakland County Sheriff's Office is seeking to consolidate its training, dispatch, and emergency operations services due to what they describe as outdated infrastructure, security and safety concerns, and critical space constraints.  The first step is to study...

Kershaw County's first responders are getting a major boost in their wireless communications with the addition of a new, purpose-built FirstNet cell site and other network enhancements. This new infrastructure is a part of the FirstNet network expansion taking place...

On Monday, Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) Sec. Jonathan Satter announced almost $860,000 in grant awards to Citrus, Franklin, Gulf, Jackson, Sumter, Walton, and Washington Counties through the E911 State Grant Program. Since January,...

At about 5 p.m. on Sept. 28, Yavapai, Cochise, Pinal, Santa Cruz, and Pima counties, as well as Flagstaff and Prescott Valley, said they were experiencing issues with their 911 emergency lines. Prescott Valley Police Department said this was a statewide outage. As of...

Berks County’s 9-1-1 system is working properly, the county’s department of emergency services said Monday night. Several news outlets said law enforcement agencies around the country reported 9-1-1 outages. The Berks department posted the following message on its...

It appears that there is a national 9-1-1 outage. The Steele and Rice County announced earlier tonight that due to 9-1-1 being down in the county the number to dial in an emergency is 507-451-5685 for emergencies. The Minneapolis Police Department tweeted that it was...

Last week, at the NENA Ignite Conference, a staffer from the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau reported that all but three states have provided information for their annual 911 fee report.  The report is required by the “New and Emerging Technologies...

Earlier this year, the department’s Emergency Communications Center was certified as a secondary public-safety answering point, or PSAP, by the Federal Communications Commission. Loudoun County is considered a primary PSAP. Such designation required some technological...

Annapolis, MD (September 28, 2020) – First responders in Waldorf, Md., in Charles County, are getting a major boost in their wireless communications with the addition of a new, purpose-built FirstNet cell site. This new infrastructure is a part of the...

Jasper County Sheriff Mitchel Newman said Monday that it won't be long before the new emergency communications center will be up and running. Newman said if all goes as planned dispatchers will move to the new building and began to receive and dispatch emergency calls...

WYTHEVILLE, Va. (WSET) -- A Virginia State Police Wytheville Division Dispatcher earned statewide honors at the VSP Superintendent's Award Ceremony. Dispatcher Alexander J. Dolinger was presented with the Virginia State Police 2019 Telecommunicator of the year award...

UPDATE: The communication system appears to be back working at this time. There has been no other information on what caused the outage. ORIGINAL STORY LAWTON, Okla. (TNN) - The primary communication system for emergency responders across much of Oklahoma has gone...