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Wireless E9-1-1 Phase II Location Accuracy Requirements; Federal Register Extracts
July 25, 2012Under the new rule section adopted by Third Report and Order, all new CMRS providers, in delivering emergency calls for Enhanced 911 service, must satisfy the handset-based location accuracy standard at either a county-based or Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP)-based geographic level.
Read full articleCounty Emergency Services Ask Residents about Special Needs
July 24, 2012CHAMBERSBURG — Franklin County is planning to pay special attention during emergencies to people with special health needs. Part of the information collected will be linked to addresses, so a 911 dispatcher can ask if the caller or victim is a special needs patient and give the information to the responding units.
Read full articleColorado Theater Shooting: Dispatchers Recount Night of Horror
July 24, 2012AURORA, Colo. — Listening to the recordings from Friday morning’s massacre, you would think dispatcher Kathie Stauffer felt no emotion as she calmly directed resources to the Aurora movie theater where scores were injured and a dozen killed.
Read full articleNavy Radio Might Be Crippling Conn. Garage Doors
July 23, 2012HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A radio signal being transmitted out of a submarine base is likely behind reports of garage doors failing to open and close in southeastern Connecticut, the U.S. Navy said Monday.
Read full articleBangor Police Promote Dispatcher to New Communications Supervisor Post
July 23, 2012BANGOR, Maine — A dispatcher for the Bangor Public Safety Communications Center was promoted last week to the newly formed position of communications supervisor, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards announced Thursday.
Read full articleFla.: Telecommunicator Admits Regret
July 23, 2012CHARLOTTE COUNTY: Former dispatcher Susan Kirby Kallestad is the only sheriff’s employee to admit she could have done more to help Denise Amber Lee, a young mother who was abducted from her home, raped and then murdered in 2008.
Read full articleChicago: Union, Officials at Odds
July 23, 2012The union representing dispatchers for the Northwest Central Dispatch System presented a vote of no confidence in the agency’s management at a board of directors meeting Thursday morning in Arlington Heights.
Read full articlePresident Honors Retired Army Colonel from Ventura Fire Agency
July 23, 2012Should a natural disaster or terrorist attack wipe out part of the country’s communications networks, the Ventura County Fire Department’s information technology manager might be able to help. James Norris spent the past few years as the western team chief with the Department of Homeland Security’s National Communications System, planning for emergencies that might knock out wide swaths of phone and Internet networks.
Read full articleHorrific Attack at Batman Screening Leaves 12 Dead
July 20, 2012AURORA, Colo. (AP) — As the new Batman movie played on the screen, a gunman dressed in black and wearing a helmet, body armor and a gas mask stepped through a side door. At first he was just a silhouette, taken by some in the audience for a stunt that was part of one of the summer’s most highly anticipated films.
Read full articlePolice: 12 Dead in Colorado Theater Shooting
July 20, 2012AURORA, Colorado (AP) — A gunman wearing a gas mask set off an unknown gas and fired into a crowded Colorado movie theater at a midnight opening of the latest Batman movie, killing at least 12 people and injuring at least 50, authorities said.
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