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Critics: 9-1-1 Towing Referrals Being Guided by Favoritism
October 24, 2010Marion, Va. — If there’s a fender bender, rollover, or car fire in town, the wrecker company most likely to arrive behind police and other rescuers is Marion Frame and Towing. Emergency dispatchers have called on the company and its associates to cover accidents in the town 308 times since 2007, which is slightly more than the combined total of calls fielded by the 17 other current and former wrecker services during that time period.
Read full articleRadio Bids Requested in Adams County, Pa.
October 24, 2010Hanover, Pa. — Adams County will soon be upgrading its 30-plus-year-old analog radio system with a new, digital one to update the county’s emergency services system. County commissioners on Wednesday approved putting out requests for proposals for the new system.
Read full articleAllegheny County, Pa., Sheriff’s Office to Get Pager Alerts
October 22, 2010A communication error between an Allegheny County 9-1-1 dispatcher and the Sheriff’s Office on Thursday prompted county officials to promise to implement a new pager-based system to ensure emergency messages are delivered.
Read full articleAHA Releases New CPR Guidelines
October 21, 2010Compressions. Airway. Breathing. If you can remember the acronym CAB, you know the priority placed on each element of CPR in the just-released 2010 Guidelines for CPR from the American Heart Association. For adults, the new Guidelines recommend a chest compression rate of at least 100 compressions per minute and a depth of two inches.
Read full articleFormer 9-1-1 Coordinator for Morrow County, Ohio, Indicted
October 21, 2010Mount Gilead, Ohio — The former 9-1-1 coordinator for Morrow County faces a four-count indictment filed Tuesday in Morrow County Common Pleas Court. Rick L. Weaver, of Mount Gilead, has been indicted on one count of theft in office, a third-degree felony; having an unlawful interest in a public contract, a fourth-degree felony; complicity to grand theft, a fourth-degree felony; and theft, a fifth-degree felony.
Read full articleCounty Asks City to Pay for Dispatch Costs
October 20, 2010Chelan, Wash. — Chelan County Commissioners sent a letter notifying the city of Chelan that the entities have a year to renegotiate their law enforcement contract to include an estimated $120,000 to pay for dispatch services.
Read full articleMaine Counties May Share Dispatch Upgrades
October 20, 2010Farmington, Maine — A taxpayer investment in public safety technology in Somerset County could make a new emergency dispatch system more affordable in Franklin County. Officials from both counties met Tuesday to discuss how recent improvements could be shared to allow the region’s emergency dispatch centers and public safety agencies to better respond to emergencies, track criminals and store and share data.
Read full articleNew CPR Guidelines
October 18, 2010Two of the three pillars of CPR — opening a distressed person’s airway and providing mouth-to-mouth breathing — turn out to be not so essential when it comes to saving the life of someone in cardiac arrest. Cardiopulmonary resuscitation should begin with forceful chest compressions to keep the blood circulating through the body, according to new guidelines released today by the American Heart Association. And people who haven’t been trained in CPR need not bother with providing air-passage clearance and mouth-to-mouth breathing at all, the group said.
Read full articleStates Use Canines to Find Cell Phones in Prisons
October 18, 2010They’ve been finding hidden bombs, drugs and corpses for years, using their sense of smell to locate what their human handlers would otherwise have to see in plain sight. Now dogs are being deployed in prisons to help curb one of the most serious problems confronting corrections officials: smuggled cell phones.
Read full articleFire Response Not Povided Because Family Did Not Pay Annual Fee
October 15, 2010The debate over who’s responsible for the destruction at the Cranick place is no simple one. When Cranick called 9-1-1, the dispatcher told him that she’d send help right away. Ten minutes later, she said firefighters were not coming after all — because the family had not paid the city its annual $75 fire protection fee.
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