Computer System Added To Fire Emergency Team COLUMBUS, Ohio —Computers play such an important role in society—from communication at work to organizing our personal lives. A local group is now using computers in an effort to save lives.Last fall during the … [Read more...]
9-1-1 Furloughs – Others Paid Overtime
STOCKTON - The unpaid furloughs ordered for city employees more than a month ago were intended to save money, but at the police and fire departments, furloughed emergency dispatchers are replaced by colleagues who are then paid overtime.At the Stockton Police Department's … [Read more...]
9-1-1 Tapes – The New "Reality Entertainment?"
By Bob GreeneCNN Contributor(CNN) -- There is a sound we have come to take utterly for granted, as instantly recognizable as the reliable resonance of baseball games on the radio, or the timbre of the television weathercaster telling us whether it will rain tomorrow … [Read more...]
9-1-1 Tapes – The New “Reality Entertainment?”
By Bob GreeneCNN Contributor(CNN) -- There is a sound we have come to take utterly for granted, as instantly recognizable as the reliable resonance of baseball games on the radio, or the timbre of the television weathercaster telling us whether it will rain tomorrow … [Read more...]
Even Passive Users Can Overload Trunked Radio Systems
What happens when too many users listen to a trunked radio system?Posted on February 20th, 2009by daryl in Interoperability, Public-Safety Radio, Technology in GovernmentLarge, multi-zone digital trunked radio systems can be so fragile that too many users merely listening to the … [Read more...]
Similar Street Names Complicate Response
Push to rename streets to avoid 911 confusionBy Zac Anderson Published: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 1:00 a.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 1:22 a.m.Public safety officials in Sarasota County are pushing for a law to change similar street names, potentially … [Read more...]
KY Moves to Keep 9-1-1 Tapes off TV and Radio
Lexington Herald-LeaderThu, Feb. 05, 2009KY Bill Advances To Keep 911 Calls off AirwavesBy ROGER ALFORDAssociated Press WriterA measure that would prevent 911 calls from being broadcast on TV and radio cleared its first legislative hurdle on Thursday and now heads to the Senate … [Read more...]
Milwaukee Radio System Behind Schedule
You Paid for It: OpenSky Still OfflineAaron Diamant/todaystmj4.comMILWAUKEE - You paid for it, so where is it?It all looked great on paper: a high-tech communications system called "OpenSky" that would let Milwaukee police, fire, EMS, all first responders, talk to each … [Read more...]
Firefighters Sent to Wrong Address – Again
For the second time in a week, Atlanta 911 dispatchers sent firefighters to the wrong address. Fire damaged a house on Howell Drive around 4:15 p.m. Sunday, but CBS Atlanta News learned that firefighters were sent to a location on Harwell Road. CBS Atlanta obtained the recording … [Read more...]
Fake 9-1-1 Calls Difficult to Prevent
AP IMPACT: Fake 911 calls difficult to prevent (AP) Doug Bates and his wife, Stacey, were in bed around 10 p.m., their 2-year-old daughters asleep in a nearby room. Suddenly they were shaken awake by the wail of police sirens and the rumble of a helicopter above their … [Read more...]