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Rockingham County Commissioners Approve 9-1-1 Consolidation Plans
June 29, 2011Wentworth, N.C. – It took nearly two months of negotiations, but Rockingham County appears on its way to consolidating 9-1-1 operations. County commissioners approved an agreement Monday night to consolidate the Eden and Reidsville 9-1-1 centers with their own.
Read full articleFolly Beach, S.C., Might Leave County 9-1-1 Center
June 29, 2011Folly Beach, S.C. – Paul Chrysostom lives and works right across the street from police headquarters in City Hall. For years, that meant quick access to an officer if he reported noise problems, drunk drivers or an emergency of some sort. If he needs to hail a cop these days, however, Chrysostom has to call a Charleston County dispatcher some 18 miles away in North Charleston.
Read full articlePa. Bill Would Restrict Public Access to Information about Where 9-1-1 Calls Originated
June 29, 2011If you call 9-1-1 here, Lancaster County-Wide Communications workers have your number. In some cases, they know your name. They know your address. But how much information they must surrender upon request to reporters — or the public — is not entirely clear.
Read full articleNaples City Council Bristle at Cost of New Radios; Suggest Officers Share
June 29, 2011Naples, Fla. — Naples police Chief Tom Weschler was ready for a fight. He knew City Council would frown at some of his fiscal 2011-12 budget requests. But Weschler said recently he never expected to have to go to bat over something he deems an essential tool of the trade: portable police radios.
Read full articleShasta County Studies 2-1-1 Calls to Relieve 9-1-1
June 29, 2011Redding, Calif. — Shasta County may be one step closer to having a toll-free number residents can call for referrals to all kinds of community resources after supervisors consider the 211 system at Tuesday’s board meeting.
Read full articleHams Test Their Radios
June 29, 2011On Saturday, about 50 other amateur radio operators from Ventura County gathered in Thousand Oaks and Simi Valley to participate in a 24-hour national exercise testing communications that could be vital during a national disaster or emergency.
Read full articlePocatello Police Dispatcher Deals with Life and Death Situations
June 29, 2011Pocatello, Idaho — Nicole Langsdorf was troubled by one of the first calls she took as she was training to become a Pocatello police dispatcher. The call left her with a mental image of her son, Buddy, in distress. Langsdorf, 32, has worked for the department for four years. While she was in training, she received a call by a man whose 2-month-old boy had stopped breathing.
Read full articleDispatcher Receives 9-1-1 Call on Own Son
June 22, 2011Rockton, Ill. — Tracy Wilson knew her 17-year-old son planned to go fishing at Rock Cut State Park with some friends after football practice. But when Wilson, a 9-1-1 dispatcher, received a call saying rescuers were needed at a nearby state park because a canoe had capsized, it didn’t occur to her to worry about her son.
Read full articleAt Poplawski Trial, Dispatcher Explains Lack of Gun Warning
June 22, 2011The Allegheny County 9-1-1 call-taker criticized for not relaying a gun warning to three police officers who were killed responding to a Stanton Heights call broke her silence on her actions on Monday. Shannon Basa-Sabol testified as the first witness in the capital case against Richard Poplawski.
Read full articleMan on Phone with 9-1-1 Wounds Officers Kicking in Door
June 22, 2011Dallas, Texas — As men tried to kick in the door, Steven Ray Jones begged a 9-1-1 operator to quickly send the police. Jones, believing the attackers who critically injured his cousin had returned, opened fire as the door to the Pleasant Grove apartment flew open. But it wasn’t the bad guys. It was the police.
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