CROWN POINT — Lake County is preparing to hire 12 contracted 911 dispatchers to try to reduce the overtime its own dispatchers are required to work due to some 30 vacancies in the county's ...

Bartels resigned as a 911 dispatcher for Gallia County on Nov. 8, 2022. Court records say someone set at least 17 fires in the days that followed. Witnesses spotted Bartels near where a fire ...

The program will allow dispatchers to get your exact location and you can even video chat with them, if you give them permission through a link. It's one of many things Prepared 911 does.

On Friday, city officials welcomed seven new fire department emergency communications dispatchers during a graduation ceremony at the safety complex on Carew Street.

Washington County will expand its crisis-response team to include a crisis telecommunicator who will be housed in the county’s Emergency Communications Response Center in Stillwater under the terms of ...

A mother in Alabama has been arrested and charged with the alleged murder of her 4-month-old son after an autopsy found that ...

PRETTY MUCH ALL WEEK LONG. THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. WE MAY SQUEEZE IN A SHOWER OR TWO A As of Sunday 11:30 a.m., the non-emergency dispatch line is back up and available to take calls. The non ...

For the first time we're hearing the actual 911 conversation with an 11-year-old Virginia Beach girl who performed CPR on her ...

Dispatcher Jay Rodriguez arrived to his shift at South Hadley’s Emergency 911 Center early — as he always does — when he ...

(Editor's note: This article is part of a weekly series featuring Columbus Dispatch journalists and their work in our community.) As with most assignments and tasks, I've been overthinking this ...

Pallone Jr. Rana and three... New rescue truck at Southern Allegheny Valley Emergency Services expands specialized response While most fire departments across the state are struggling to stay ...

Evening of remembrance to... When called upon, Vandergrift No. 2 firefighters almost always arrive at an emergency scene in short order. But, in just a couple of years, by Chief Albert Wells ...