Emergency medical dispatch solutions provider Priority Dispatch has entered a partnership with VectorCare to integrate its emergency dispatch protocols into VectorCare's suite of customisable ...

On December 31, 2024, 911 dispatcher Payton Timmons received a call for a patient in cardiac arrest. The commissioners say Timmons successfully provided the caller instructions and the appropriate ...

FLEMINGTON, Pa. — 9-1-1 dispatchers at the Clinton County Communications Center in Flemington receive hundreds of calls every day, helping people in some of their most trying times, but Monday ...

OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – A 911 dispatcher told James Boone that police would respond after he expressed fear about his troubled adult son, who had stopped taking medication for mental illness.

“Once you call 911, we're able to get a live link sent to your phone and it's essentially a one-way video feed to our fire dispatchers,” said Scott Douglas, Public Information Officer at the ...

We spent some time with Erin to see what it takes to be an emergency dispatcher. She walked us through how calls come in, how responders are dispatched to different scenes and the skills it takes ...

In the video below, Aneesa Coomer reports on an upcoming hiring event for the Great Falls/Cascade County 911 Center: Dispatcher Doug Sunderland says, “One of the big obstacles we have in hiring ...

LONGVIEW, Texas — The Longview Police Department fired up the grills to honor and support the family of a longtime 911 dispatcher. Casey Lawson, who served as a dispatcher for 22 years ...

Punta Gorda City Council on Feb. 19 voted unanimously to keep its 911 dispatch center under city control in a move that blocks the county from consolidating the city’s dispatch center with the ...

MPDS is a software system that helps dispatchers better assess the level of urgency of a 911 call and direct paramedics to the sickest, most at-risk patients first. In so doing, the system is ...

In today's fast-paced and interconnected world, overcoming technology-driven challenges is vital for effective incident management and the well-being of our communities. Public safety agencies face ...