The 911 system is not working in New Orleans and St. Charles Parish in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida, officials said Monday morning. Jefferson Parish's system was down earlier Monday, but service had been restored as of 9 a.m. In Orleans, if you have an...

Artist’s rendering of view looking northeast at new Rosemont Public Safety headquarters. The scheduled Monday, Aug. 30 groundbreaking ceremony for Rosemont’s new 101,000 sq. ft. public safety headquarters has been canceled because one of the key tenants of the...

Emergency management employees for the city of Hays and Ellis County are reviewing the possibility of installing a permanent 911 emergency dispatch backup system in the basement of the county's fire/EMS building. Accidental flooding from a fire sprinker head Aug. 2...

The Chilton County E-911 Board approved the budget for the 2022 fiscal year during a Aug. 26 voting session. 911 Director Terra Scott included salary increases “for employees who have passed their evaluations.” She said the employees in the department have been...

Orange County officials have a solid track record of repurposing old buildings for county office space. The county’s primary administration office—the Gordon Building on Main Street—once was the Leggett department store. The nearby building services office was the...

NEW SCOTLAND — A year ago, citing coronavirus concerns and major savings to taxpayers, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple requested and received permission to move the county’s Emergency 9-1-1 Communications Center from its planned location at the Shaker Place Nursing...

HOWLAND — When there is an emergency, usually 911 is called, but what happens when 911 needs to call 911? Thanks to the heroic effort of Trumbull County dispatcher Katelyn Bower, a choking Shana Murphy didn’t need to find out that answer Thursday night. “I knew I was...

WINNEBAGO COUNTY, Wis. (WFRV) – After 43 years of service, a local Winnebago County 911 Dispatcher picked up the phone and asked ‘9-1-1, what’s your emergency?” for the very last time. For the last four decades Communications Center 911 Dispatcher, Dennis Kallin has...

MORGAN HILL, Calif. - Authorities have located and disabled an electronic signal-jamming device in Morgan Hill. The Santa Clara County Emergency Communications Department on Thursday reported that the signal was "disrupting, impeding, and interfering with public...

The Pettis County Commission announced that as of Wednesday, Pettis County Joint Communications (PCJC) is now the primary operational emergency Public Safety Answering Point for Pettis County, consolidating the efforts between the Sedalia Police Department and Pettis...

Yes, it’s true. Police scanners no longer pick up transmissions from some local police departments.   Lewiston and Auburn police departments have gone to a new encrypted radio system that cannot be picked up by the regular police scanners owned by many civilians. ...

ST. LOUIS — In response to months of complaints about St. Louis 911 callers being left on hold, Mayor Tishaura O. Jones announced plans Thursday to combine the city police and fire emergency call centers to eliminate a system that, Jones says, has created a 911...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - A new program designed to provide alternative emergency response for mental health 911 calls will launch next week. The Madison Fire Department’s Community Alternative Response Emergency Services (CARES) team will begin responding to 911 calls...

Clallam County has received a pair of offers from Seattle-area architects to design a joint Emergency Operations Center and 9-1-1 dispatch center in west Port Angeles. The three commissioners on Aug. 24 opened non-priced proposals from OAC Services, Inc. of Seattle...

OSHKOSH, Wis. (WBAY) - A legend is hanging it up in Winnebago County. For more than 40 years, police officers, sheriff’s deputies, firefighters, and other emergency responders heard his voice on their radios. Now, Winnebago County’s longest serving 911 dispatcher is...

ST. LOUIS - Today, Mayor Tishaura O. Jones toured the 9-1-1 dispatch center in Downtown St. Louis to meet with 9-1-1 dispatchers and give an update to press on the administration’s efforts to streamline and improve the city’s current system. Mayor Jones met with...

Above: The Public Safety Building completed in 2019 combines a dispatch center for Southborough Police and Fire. Now, the Town is researching if working with other MetroWest towns on a regional dispatch center outside of the building makes fiscal sense. (image cropped...

Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Communications, which fields 911 calls for the city, did not dispatch police when a Chevron gas station employee called to report a potential explosion hazard as dueling protesters threw fireworks near the gas pumps during a street...