Montgomery County commissioners postponed funding new fire service radios after a disagreement on using county funds. The county’s Emergency Services Director Darren Hess presented the request at the court’s Dec. 14 meeting. The funding request came to approximately $4.7 … [Read more...]
Fire alarms did not sound in parts of the World Trade Centre during Wednesday's blaze because electric wires of the alarm system were burned, the property management company said. Ka Shing Management Services overseeing the 39-story mall-office complex in Causeway Bay … [Read more...]
OLYMPIA, Wash. – Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson says Centurylink is to blame for a major 9-1-1 outage in 2018. Ferguson submitted testimony Thursday, December 16th, he says shows Centurylink’s fiber optic system failed in the early hours of December … [Read more...]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A firetruck was involved in a deadly crash Wednesday night after it collided with an SUV on Broadway Boulevard near Westport Road, which sent both vehicles into a building. Part of that recording details dispatchers telling fire crews to stand … [Read more...]
The family of a woman who died in the 2019 Alpine Motel Apartments fire filed a lawsuit this week against the companies that maintained the building’s fire alarm system. Six people died in the blaze on Dec. 21, 2019, making it the deadliest residential fire in Las Vegas … [Read more...]
RECORD YEAR FOR 9-1-1 CALLS – UTAH
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Shots were fired in a Columbus neighborhood Monday afternoon and at least one bullet hit a window on the second floor of a city building where police dispatchers take emergency calls. Columbus police said they think it was a stray bullet that struck the 911 … [Read more...]