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Fire Chief: Don’t Be Afraid to Call 9-1-1 for Help
October 19, 2011Anyone heading to a hospital emergency room should call 911 for a ride.
Read full articleTeen Faces Charges after 911 Prank
October 19, 2011A Shelton High School student has been charged with calling in a phony 911 call after a responding firetruck collided with two vehicles Thursday morning [Oct. 13], injuring one person, police said.
Read full articleBaby Saved after 9-1-1 Dispatcher Talks Desperate Dad through CPR
October 19, 2011An Elmwood Park 911 dispatcher talked a desperate father through CPR after his 3-week-old daughter stopped breathing, and paramedics were later able to resuscitate the girl on the way to the hospital.
Read full articleCorny Story: Danvers Dispatcher Deftly Fields 9-1-1 call
October 19, 2011The item about a family who called 911 on Columbus Day to report they were lost in a Danvers corn maze has “gone viral,” as they say. And we’re not surprised. This is just the sort of story that news outlets love to sink their teeth into, whether typewriter-style or in neat columns.
Read full articleFitchburg Training New Police Dispatchers
October 19, 2011By Michael Hartwell, Sentinel & Enterprise (Fitchburg, Massachusetts) FITCHBURG — Things are looking a little less bright for criminals in…
Read full articleAldermen, Union Fight 9-1-1 Cuts
October 19, 2011Chicago firefighter-turned-alderman Nick Sposato (36th) and the union representing fire dispatchers maneuvered Monday to kill Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to reduce the ranks of police and fire dispatchers at the city’s 911 emergency center.
Read full articleCounty Still Searching for Dispatch Answer
October 19, 2011AUBURN — The controversy over who will answer when local people dial 911 goes on.
County commissioners have tossed out a September 2010 vote to merge Androscoggin County’s emergency dispatching center with Lewiston-Auburn 911, a move that would have created a single hub for the county’s emergency calls.
Read full articleJefferson County 911 Dispatch Adheres to Narrowband Mandate
October 13, 2011Jefferson County 911 Dispatch recently voted to spend $31.4 million to upgrade its radio equipment to meet federal narrowbanding requirements.
Read full articleTwo Communications Towers to Go up in Whittier, Puente Hills for Emergency Response System
October 13, 2011Los Angeles County is in the process of implementing the Los Angeles Regional Interoperable Communications System, a modern wireless voice and data communications system that will support 50 law enforcement agencies and 31 fire departments within the region. As part of the large scale project, two new 150-foot towers will be built early next year near Whittier and the Puente Hills Landfill, which the Board of Supervisors approved in November 2010.
Read full article911 Call Reveals Terror at Drugstore
October 13, 2011MIAMI TWP., Montgomery County – A Walgreen’s clerk was calm when she called 911 Saturday afternoon to tell police that a man carrying a rifle and dressed in fatigues had fired a shot inside the store. Police released the recording of the 911 call on Sunday.
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