(TNS) — Proponents of a bill that would boost retirement benefits for emergency dispatchers say the change could help improve recruitment and retention efforts in a high-stress profession that ...

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 ...

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.

(The Center Square) – House Democrats advanced a bill Tuesday that could upend an emergency dispatch network in Spokane by requiring counties to reallocate 911 tax revenue to cities operating ...

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 ...

(The Center Square) – House Democrats in the Washington State Legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that could upend an emergency dispatch network in Spokane by requiring counties to reallocate 911 tax ...

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 ...

Sanchez, who resigned from the Albuquerque Fire Department in 2015 after hanging up on a 911 caller trying to help a 17-year-old a drive-by gunshot victim, was later hired as a dispatcher for ...

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 ...

Other cities contract with the center. It provides emergency dispatch services for most fire and law enforcement agencies in the county. Modesto Bee file Stanislaus County supervisors are prepared ...

According to court documents, one of Chapin's friends uncovered the gruesome scene and instructed others to call 911. Several people spoke to the dispatcher. Police arrived in less than 5 minutes.