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Donald Grant: Municipalities need to answer the emergency call for more 911 funding


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In media interviews, I’ve been asked if the recent gridlock resulting from the high call volumes close to 8,000 calls on June 26 and more than 7,300 calls on June 27, or more than 55 per cent above the daily average in June is just because of an extreme weather event or is a troubling sign of a more systemic problem. It is most certainly the latter.
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For some time now, there simply have not been enough 911 operators in the system to deal with any significant surge in call volumes caused by major events. The staff that we do have are stretched to the limit, working increasing amounts of overtime, and at times working through their breaks on 12-hour shifts. ....

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Kristina Jenei is a freelance science writer and public health researcher at the School of Population and Public Health at the University of British Columbia. She is currently based in Christchurch, New Zealand. Follow her @kjmeetswrld.
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At Tuesday’s COVID-19 press briefing, Dr. Bonnie Henry indicated that “unnecessary travel and social gatherings are fueling the fire.” The fire being the third wave of COVID-19 which seems to be propelled by highly transmissible variants of concern. Despite promises to impose stronger measures to curb non-essential movement, Premier Horgan recently said British Columbia would not implement any new travel restrictions at this time. He continued, “I appreciate we want to be like New ....

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