CLEVELAND City of Cleveland fires dispatcher after repeated violations of policies and procedures "Your actions create an unprofessional and untenable work situation for your co-workers and supervisors, and negatively impact the operation..." Credit: 3News Author: WKYC … [Read more...]
Children are taught from a young age to dial 911 in an emergency. Whether it’s a heart attack, a break-in or a fire, 911 answers the call right away. A widespread 911 service outage across Kansas on Sunday afternoon is testing that assumption. A roughly three-hour … [Read more...]
The Our Lady of Angels fire anniversary (Dec. 1, 1958) in Chicago where 92 kids and four nuns lost their lives – a day in 1958 where the heroics of Chicago firefighters were well documented. 3 VIDEOS OF THE OUR LADY OF ANGELS SCHOOL … [Read more...]
EMERGENCY DISPATCH ISSUE PROMPTS DELTA MAYOR TO DESCRIBE FAMILY INCIDENT
t’s just another example why Delta needs to have the right to have its fire department notified of medical emergency calls. Mayor George Harvie made that point at the start of city council’s meeting Monday in describing an incident last week where a family member, who’s a … [Read more...]
WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - The Office of Unified Communications publically apologized to a D.C. mother on Tuesday, some five months after a D.C. dispatcher sent crews to the wrong address, delaying the 9-1-1 response time to a cardiac arrest emergency. Sheila Shepperd, 59, died in a … [Read more...]
Nevada County’s rugged landscape can make communication for first responders difficult when emergencies strike in river canyons and parts of the county with limited telecommunications infrastructure. Radio coverage can be spotty, and many times cell and data service are … [Read more...]
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — Last week's Video Vault examined the 1991 industrial accident at a local factory named Pioneer Chlor Alkali, where tons of toxic gas were released into the atmosphere, resulting in more than 300 medical complaints. In the days that followed, some of the … [Read more...]
Fire officials on Friday announced a coronavirus outbreak at a dispatch center that receives 911 emergency calls in Sacramento County, where nine employees have tested positive for COVID-19. Tyler Wagaman, executive director of the Sacramento Regional Fire/EMS Communication … [Read more...]
WASHINGTON — New details have emerged in the story of a teenager struggling to resuscitate her mom, while D.C.'s 911 call center sent help to the wrong address. The man at home at that wrong house -- in another quadrant of the city -- realized almost immediately there was a … [Read more...]
PARMA, OH—An unexpected outage last week at the Cuyahoga Emergency Communications System (CECOMS) led to a Parma family in desperate need of medical attention calling 9-1-1 without anyone picking up. “On Nov. 5 at 4:10 a.m., CECOMS experienced an outage,” Cuyahoga County … [Read more...]