The new Brevard County Emergency Operations Center to be located at 1751 Huntington Lane in Rockledge will house a consolidated dispatch center for the Brevard County Fire Rescue and the Brevard County Sheriff’s office in addition to the Brevard County Emergency...

A bill Missouri Governor Mike Parson signed into law in August gives dispatchers access to expanded benefits, including mental health care services and earlier retirement, by defining them as first responders and allowing jurisdictions to do the same.

White served as the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office’s dispatch supervisor. She spent seven years with the department, having worked there since she was 16-years-old. READ FULL ARTICLE

PRINCETON, NJ, UNITED STATES, September 5, 2023/EINPresswire.com/ -- IXP Corporation, a leading public safety company, is proud to announce its donation of a specialized kit designed to support first responders in assisting autistic children during distressing...

ORANGE BEACH — Two Cullman County Sheriff’s department employees are dead after a Sheriff Deputy killed a shift supervisor and then himself after an argument escalated to gun violence early Thursday morning, Sept. 7. READ FULL ARTICLE

Leesburg, VA (September 7, 2023) – Chief of Police Thea Pirnat and the proud members of the Leesburg Police Department, along with Mayor Kelly Burk and members of the Town Council, the Leesburg Town Government staff and representatives from Hoar Construction and...

The emergency communication service serving the Sioux Falls area is undergoing a restructuring. Metro Communications is the organization that handles 911 calls for Minnehaha County, including Sioux Falls. They coordinate emergency dispatch services with police,...

Delaware County’s 911 Center is one of the best in the nation, officially. Delaware County Emergency Services Director Timothy Boyce announced that the county’s 911 Emergency Services Center had met all of the requirements and was officially designated as nationally...

Pierce County residents can learn about the inner workings of their local 911 center through participation in the South Sound 911 Community Academy. The no-cost academy is scheduled from Oct. 3 to Nov. 7 and will host sessions on Tuesdays, 6:30 – 8 p.m.,...

FirstNet® Users Conference Brings Public Safety Together FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 6, 2023 Las Vegas, NV — Vision 2023: the FirstNet Users Summit is coming back to Las Vegas to convene progressive public safety leaders with the latest in innovative...

A Jenks man is retiring after working as a dispatcher for the Jenks police department for 46 years.  Bruce Parker is the longest-serving dispatcher in the department's history. He said he was born and raised in Jenks, and it's been an honor to serve his...

The Lee Board of County Commissioners voted Tuesday to award a contract for a two-story, 36,873 square-foot addition to the existing Emergency Operations Center at 2675 Ortiz Ave., Fort Myers.

A Nebraska senator says he has concerns about the state's infrastructure after two separate 911 outages disrupted critical emergency services for 12 hours each. READ FULL ARTICLE

While the Oregon Road and Gray fires were ripping through Spokane County, a team of dispatchers in Colville were coordinating air and ground resources to the blazes. The Northeast Washington Interagency Communications Center dispatches state and federal agencies,...

The minutes a 911 caller spends on the phone with an operator are often filled with frenzy and uncertainty. Attempts to describe an emergency can easily leave out key details that would help first responders know exactly what they’re responding to. A handful of North...

NEW HANOVER COUNTY – Nearly a dozen calls from a recent shooting shared vital information with the New Hanover County 911 center. “There were shots fired, there’s a woman tied up,” one caller said.

OAKLAND — The Oakland Police Department has one year to speed up its notoriously slow emergency response times, California officials have warned, or the city risks losing important state funding — and even the authority to answer 911 calls at all. Most...

A North Texas 911 center is offering a service during emergency calls that no other agency is offering. Dispatchers at the North Texas Emergency Communications Center are not only ready to listen to your call for help, but they are prepared to watch your emergency as...

North Slope’s tribal organization asked for federal help with the response to the internet and cell outages that hurt several Arctic communities this summer after the fiber cable was damaged. An undersea fiber optic line was severed by the sea ice on June 10, leading...