Citizens at Odds Over Proposed Levy Huron County officials have said they need at least $4 million to upgrade the county’s outdated 911 operations, which has had nine outages in the past year-and-a-half. In November, voters will be asked to vote on a five-year 911 levy to fund the required upgrades. Despite the benefits that […]
Friday morning, shortly after 5 a.m. 911 service had been restored to all counties in Western North Carolina who were reporting outages with their 911 systems. An alert issued shortly after 2 am by Cherokee County Emergency Management reported a 911 outage in several mountain towns Friday morning saying: Similar Story: Verizon 911 outage restored […]
Citizens at Odds Over Proposed Levy Huron County officials have said they need at least $4 million to upgrade the county’s outdated 911 operations, which has had nine outages in the past year-and-a-half. In November, voters will be asked to vote on a five-year 911 levy to fund the required upgrades. Despite the benefits that […]
While preparing your community for a hurricane, if the evacuation creates its own disaster, is evacuation still a good idea? In the aftermath of the evacuation, Garnet Coleman, the Democratic State Representative from Houston asked “Is the chance of dying greater in the movement than in the storm? That is the question we need to consider.” This case study discusses the challenges that arose when public officials decided that a mass evacuation of a densely-populated region was necessary 3 days prior to Hurricane Rita making landfall in Texas and Louisiana.
Friday morning, shortly after 5 a.m. 911 service had been restored to all counties in Western North Carolina who were reporting outages with their 911 systems. An alert issued shortly after 2 am by Cherokee County Emergency Management reported a 911 outage in several mountain towns Friday morning saying: Similar Story: Verizon 911 outage restored […]
Citizens at Odds Over Proposed Levy Huron County officials have said they need at least $4 million to upgrade the county’s outdated 911 operations, which has had nine outages in the past year-and-a-half. In November, voters will be asked to vote on a five-year 911 levy to fund the required upgrades. Despite the benefits that […]
The Edinburg Police Department unveiled a new trial program which they predict will help save lives during a news conference Friday afternoon. The new program is called the Critical Response Group 911 Eye Emergency Streaming Software, and is currently in use by only two other police departments in the United States, according to a news […]
Nationwide Outage for AT&T Wireless Customers Early Tuesday morning, 9-1-1 PSAPs began posting to their respective social media accounts about a 9-1-1 outage for AT&T Wireless customers. Citizens with AT&T cellular service were unable to call 9-1-1 for emergency assistance for at least 2 hours. As early as 06:30am CST, social media accounts for 9-1-1 […]
