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Connecticut: 9-1-1 Upgrade Centralizes Dispatch
March 11, 2013The new update was more difficult because it had to be done while the room was still functioning as a 9-1-1center.
Read full articleEducate Kids on Appropriate 9-1-1 Etiquette
March 5, 2013Tim Lee, executive director of the Consolidated Communications Partnership, said teaching children when and why to call 9-1-1 is one of the best ways to reduce the number of unnecessary calls.
Read full articleCalif. Woman Dies After Nurse Refuses to Do CPR
March 5, 2013A nurse’s refusal to give CPR to a dying 87-year-old woman at a California independent living home despite desperate pleas from a 9-1-1 dispatcher has prompted outrage and spawned a criminal investigation.
Read full articleMetro Cities Fire Authority (Orange County, Calif.) Is Implementing a New Dispatch System to Cut Down Response Time
March 4, 2013For more than a decade the Metro Cities Fire Authority, or Metro Net, has used a system that, while adequate, has lacked the modern technology that would allow its dispatchers to more efficiently notify first responders. But now, the fire authority is in the process of implementing automated vehicle locators.
Read full articleWayne County Dispatching Center & Costs Create Controversy
March 4, 2013As governments of all shapes and sizes try to do more with less, dispatching service in Wayne County was the first nut officials tried to crack.
Read full articleWindham Chief Makes Push for New Radios, Computers
March 4, 2013Police are urging Windham voters to consider a $84,600 warrant item for the replacement of their vehicles’ two-way radios and computers.
Read full articleExtended 9-1-1 Service Planned in Rockingham County
March 4, 2013A few years ago, the idea of texting an emergency to 9-1-1 would have sounded far-fetched. But with more people communicating through text messages than ever before, emergency officials say it only makes sense for dispatchers to start accepting texts and even pictures from accident scenes in the future.
Read full articlePublic Safety & Worthington Dispatchers Overloaded, Boss Says
March 4, 2013An unexpected shortage of police and fire dispatchers has prompted Worthington’s communications center supervisor to recommend that the city’s response arrangement with Columbus be suspended.
Read full articleWoman, 87, Dies After Nurse Refuses to Do CPR
March 4, 2013A central California retirement home is defending one of its nurses who refused pleas by a 9-1-1 telecommunicator to perform CPR on an elderly woman, who later died.
Read full articleSouth Bend, Ind., Council OKs Raises for Dispatch Staff
February 27, 2013The South Bend Common Council on Monday agreed to appropriate about $237,000 out of the general fund to pay for raises for the city’s emergency dispatch employees and to hire two new people in the mayor’s office.
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