The Paducah Police Department's 911 Emergency Communications Division has achieved re-accreditation through the Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police, the department announced Tuesday. The division first was accredited in 2016. The process requires a dispatch...

MANCHESTER, N.H. — In New Hampshire, there is a highly specialized group of first responders who are never seen but are critical to public safety, dispatchers. Officials say it is a top priority to protect them because a COVID-19 outbreak would be devastating. >>...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - Dispatchers with the Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office are dressing down to raise awareness and money for charities. The Shawnee County Sheriff’s Office says in a Facebook post that its dispatch has started raising money for a handful of...

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (WBKO) - Medical Center EMS has successfully completed the 20-step process to reaccredit its Communications Center as an Accredited Center of Excellence. The Communication Center is the 250th emergency dispatch center in the world to attain the...

Results from the $96,922 Lewis County 911 feasibility study launched over the summer were presented to county commissioners Tuesday, posing the question of whether Lewis County should consolidate 911 dispatch services with Thurston County’s 911 Communications (TCOMM)....

REGION – The $8.7 million new Southeastern Massachusetts Emergency Communications Center (SEMRECC) constructed at the High Rock site in Foxborough began taking your 911 calls in mid November. The center is home to the Southeastern Massachusetts Regional 911 District,...

Direct the Legislative Research Commission staff to study county emergency dispatch call center funding; investigate causes and factors contributing to the decline of funding levels; require study to be conducted over the 2007 legislative interim; require study to...

A mobile app is being launched to help first responders find 9-1-1 callers who don’t know their location. The OPP announced it will be using the WHAT3WORDS app in its Provincial Communication Centres effective immediately. In an emergency situation, if a caller...

First responders in Patrick County received a major communications boost at the end of October when two new FirstNet cell sites went live in the county. AT&T Public Affairs spokesperson Daniel Langan and AT&T Corporate Communications spokesperson Karen Twomey...

“Who Ya Gonna Call?” is the seventh episode of the first season of the American comedy-drama television series “Psych”. The Hurricane season garners our attention in late summer and in winter it is the snow and ice. The news media reports the progress of hurricanes...

DANVILLE, Va. (WDBJ) - Since the last time the Danville Emergency Services Center received an upgrade in 2016, technology has continuously improved how people can connect with 9-1-1. Still, even things like the 9-1-1 text program could be better. “It comes across...

MAINE, USA — As Keith Carson clung to the top of Two Lights Lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth to bring you the latest on the November storm Monday, tens of thousands of Mainers across the state lost power from high wind gusts.  Central Maine Power (CMP) is...

BATH — Retired Bath Police Chief Lawrence “Max” Dawson, 67, passed away unexpectedly at his Phippsburg home on Friday, Nov. 27. He retired in 1998 and became the director of the Sagadahoc County Communications Center and Emergency Management. He later served as...

FORT MITCHELL, Ky. — A police sergeant from the Fort Mitchell Police Department signed off one final time Monday and his final call was extra special due to the dispatcher who was on the other line. Sgt. Michael Gross with the Fort Mitchell Police Department is...