Prince Albert Daily Herald
By Lyle Karasiuk
This week we celebrate National Public Safety Telecommunications week. We say thank you to our incredible team of medical communication specialists. We also say thank you to our telecommunication partners at Saskatchewan Public Safety Agency. These folks handle the 9-1-1 calls as well police or fire dispatch. We also thank our partners at the RCMP telecommunication center in Regina. As communication partners we are all dedicated to keeping you safe in this province.
Being a medical communications specialist is not an easy job. When you are hearing a panicked mother frantically calling for help because her child is not breathing. A wife whose life partner of many years might be having a stroke. A young child calling because mommy has fallen and needs help. These all weigh very heavy on the hearts and minds of our team. They are parents too! But their number one job is to help and that they do so very well. Keeping you calm to get precise
Whatcom seeks better, cheaper answer for the 138,574 calls to 911 each year
The Bellingham Herald 12/15/2020 Robert Mittendorf, The Bellingham Herald (Bellingham, Wash.)
Dec. 15 Combining Whatcom County s two 911 dispatch centers, whose operators separately send law-enforcement officers or firefighters to calls for service, is back on the County Council s agenda.
It s both logical and a cost-saving measure to combine the two 911 centers, said Councilman Tyler Byrd. I ve been working on all the documentation I can find on this and talking to people. I can t find a single efficiency that comes out of this the way it is today, Byrd said during a Nov. 12 budget session.