TAMPA — Two members of the Suwannee County Sheriff’s Office received statewide recognition this week. At the Florida Sheriffs Association Winter Conference, Public Safety Telecommunicators Brittany Wheeler and Taylor McCathern of the SCSO were named the 2020...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Spokane Police Department is thanking Texas Roadhouse after an act of kindness filled the heart – and bellies – of local dispatchers. Police posted on Facebook that Texas Roadhouse staff working to open the new location in North Spokane brought...

TULSA, Okla. — A group of Tulsa firefighters are going beyond the call of duty. A crew decided to build one of their fire dispatchers a wheelchair ramp after she had part of her leg amputated following a car crash last year. Firefighters say she had steps by her front...

MERIDEN — City officials hope wage increases included in a newly proposed three-year labor agreement with the city’s emergency dispatchers will help the city attract and retain employees at the city’s dispatch center.  The salary range Meriden has offered to...

The Eau Claire county communications center says it is having major issues with people calling 9-1-1 and hanging up. But as First News at Nine’s, Jonathan Fortier, shows us technology – like the Apple Watch – is making the number of hang-up calls even higher. The...

Congratulation to Brittany and Taylor for receiving the Florida Sheriff's Association Dispatcher of the year award at the FSA Winter Conference. https://youtu.be/-s4hcAX7ggk

HENRICO, Va. (WWBT) - Henrico County dispatchers say Monday’s false active shooter threat was the first time they had received a text like that through the “Text to 911” program. In June 2018 the Henrico County Emergency Communications Center incorporated the text to...

In an emergency, every second counts, and in Lehigh County, those seconds have been mounting. Dispatch times — when a 9-1-1 call is received to when the first crew is dispatched — have grown by an average of two minutes since the June merger of the Lehigh County and...

I’m here at the Guardian Center. This full-scale training facility, located in Perry, GA, is where Public Safety goes to test new technologies and their operational impact on real-world scenarios. I watch from my secure vantage point in the Joint Operations Center...

The Marshall County Fiscal Court last week announced it had denied the appeal of the former Marshall County E911 dispatcher who was terminated in December after being arrested and charged with a felony. Tonya Clevidence, 46, was arrested Dec. 9 by the Marshall County...

AUSTINTOWN — With a $503,000 expansion to the Austintown Township Police Department nearing completion, dispatchers in the building are eager to move to new space that not only will provide more elbow room, but also help improve efficiency in responding to emergencies...

ALBANY – Staffing shortages at the 9-1-1 communications center in the City of Albany is something NewsChannel 13 has been reporting on for months. The city is now taking proposals from emergency communications consultants. They want the consultant to come in and...

Snow isn’t a common occurrence on southern Vancouver Island, and the sight has caused many people to reach out to emergency responders. E-Comm, which runs the South Island 9-1-1/Police Dispatch Centre out of Saanich, said that when snow started falling on Sunday night...

Trooper Mitchell Reynolds of the State Highway Patrol’s Marietta post and Dispatcher Sara Morgan of the Cambridge Dispatch Center recently received letters of commendation and certificates for their life-saving efforts during an incident on Sept. 24 in Washington...

Upcoming changes to the statewide 911 system are expected to drastically improve the ability of dispatchers to locate 911 callers in rural Alaska by recording cellphone call locations, according to the Department of Public Safety. When 911 callers in rural areas...

Margaret Haugan is Minot Police Department’s new Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) Manager, according to a Facebook post from the MPD. Haugan has worked for Minot Central Dispatch for 12 years. She will take over as PSAP manager after Barb McPeak retires...

For this year, Jefferson County 9-1-1 is working on launching a brand new Computer Aided Dispatching (CAD) system to law enforcement and other emergency first responders. Chief Willaims expects the CAD system to be up and running by late second quarter of this year.

Iroquois County is making its strides to becoming NextGen 9-1-1 compliant. At Wednesday evening’s Emergency Telephones Systems Board (ETSB) meeting a GIS mapping bid and a recording software quote were approved to allow 9-1-1 director Eric Raymond to write the costs...

TORRINGTON — The name Doug Tillotson may not ring a bell, but his voice is a dead giveaway. His folksy oratory on the radio transmissions at Litchfield County Dispatch is one that Torrington police officers, firefighters and first responders across Litchfield County...

ALBANY – It's a problem NewsChannel 13 has been following for years, short staffing at the dispatch center in the city of Albany. Back in September, NewsChannel 13 covered the story after only three dispatchers were working overnight, two of them doing a double...