JOHNSTOWN — The Fulton County Board of Supervisors on Monday accepted a nearly $175,000 state grant to augment salaries at the 911 Dispatch Center. The resolution that passed authorizes acceptance of a $173,933 Public Safety Answering Points Grant from the state...

Business and community leaders filled a Culpeper firehall Wednesday night to celebrate first responders and public service workers. The event was the fourth annual Valor Awards, hosted by the Culpeper Chamber of Commerce at Salem Volunteer Fire Department. A major...

WILMINGTON, N.C. (WECT) – You can always count on having a 911 dispatcher on the other end of the line when you call for help, but these first responders do not have the same legal protections as others like police or firefighters. They’re never at the scene of the...

Some of Dover Police Department's finest were recognized in a ceremony held at the station on Wednesday. Five department employees were recognized for their work during an early morning fire at an apartment building on Hill Street which broke out around 1 a.m. on June...

REDDING — The town’s emergency departments hope to have a new radio system up and running by the end of the month to enhance their communication with one another and eliminate safety risks. Redding started the multi-year, multi-million-dollar improvement years ago...

Many in the call center are working up to 16-hour shifts to cover for short staffing, and employees with disciplinary actions against them are continuing to work. TOLEDO, Ohio — We all hope we never have to call 911, but if we do, we expect someone will answer the...

Lawmakers in Texas are taking steps to help 911 and EMS professionals save more lives. Texas recently passed House Bill 786, which ensures all Texas 911 dispatchers are trained in the delivery of high-quality T-CPR.1 Telecommunicator-CPR is the process by which a 911...

Description Responsibilities: Implements, directs and guides dispatch services Answers emergency and non-emergency calls for service Receives and records information and requests for police/security services in a computerized database Dispatches field personnel...

SWEETWATER COUNTY — Sweetwater County residents will have the chance to vote on a 1 percent general purpose tax proposition in November in a special election. The Sweetwater County Board of Commissioners, the City of Green River, Town of Superior, Town of Wamsutter...

Alexandria, VA – The Association of Public-Safety Communications Professionals (APCO) International has announced Deann MacLeod of Kingman, Arizona has graduated from the prestigious Certified Public-Safety Executive (CPE) Program. Deann MacLeod serves as...

Elected officials are bringing “next generation” emergency communication technology to the region, and that benefits everyone who finds themselves in an emergency and the first responders sent to help. The Union County Commissioners voted to join the internet-based...

28 June 2021 marked the official end of the Solution Prototype Phase (Phase 2) of the BroadWay PCP, with the notification of end of phase 2 results to the three competing consortia - Airbus DS, Frequentis AG and Leonardo S.p.A. Throughout Phase 2, the consortia were...

VICTORIA — British Columbia is overhauling the ambulance service to reduce wait times for the most serious 911 calls after complaints about long delays during medical emergencies, the health minister says. Adrian Dix said Wednesday that calls increased dramatically...

This commentary is by Stephen Whitaker of Montpelier, an author who has worked for 30 years on integrating planning, government transparency and accountability, public records access and more recently utility networks resiliency. Vermont finally has a newly adopted...

SAGINAW, Mich. (WJRT) - A Saginaw murder may put the spotlight on the need for more police officers in the city. 23-year-old Nala Wallace was found shot to death on a porch on the southwest part of the city in the early morning hours of July 5th. That wasn’t the only...

Skagit 911 is seeking approval from its governing board to put a 0.1% sales tax increase on the November ballot. That amounts to a $1 increase on a $1,000 purchase and would generate roughly $3.85 million annually and give the county's emergency dispatch center a...