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• Ore. county emergency communication tower destroyed

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  The emergency communication tower necessary for loggers, fire personnel and ham radio operators was cut down over the weekend, causing more than $60,000 in damage

• Hundreds of calls flood Ohio 911 call centers after earthquake

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  All of the calls that department received was from people wondering what happened, rather than reporting an emergency

• Wash. county 911 study could lead to EMS dispatch regionalization

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  The information contained in a feasibility study done last year to determine if and how the Twin Cities could run their own 911 service would likely be offered up for use in the Lewis County-TCOMM study

• 911 failures during Calif. wildfires prompt changes

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  An analysis showed that 56% of the 4,272 emergency alert calls in the first hours of the Paradise fire failed

• Denver opens new 911 center due to demand

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  The communication center’s call volume increased 10% between 2015 and 2018 with 1,103,407 incoming calls in 2018

• Spokane lays off 10 dispatchers as it considers joining new emergency communications center

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  Once operations begin at the new dispatch center on July 1, the city will only need eight of its 18 fire dispatchers

• High-tech dispatch tool will help Ohio county dispatchers track mobile phone users

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  Software and hardware will be installed at dispatch centers that will give dispatchers immediate location data within 3 feet of the mobile phone being used

• FirstNet turns 1, announces 600K device connections, plans to expand

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  The FirstNet communications platform for first responders is being used by more than 7,250 public safety agencies to improve interagency communication

• Fla. county schools to connect buses to county emergency radios

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  The school district will purchase and install 690 radios on buses and equipment on 12 tower sites, all tied to the county's existing 800-megahertz emergency system

• 911 dispatch protections bill passes Ohio Senate

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  The bill would add 911 operators as one of the professions whose residential and familial information is exempted from public record in order to better protect them from harm and harassment

• Ohio city Verizon customers without 911 access for hours

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  The 9-1-1 coordinator said the system is has a back-up plan when such an outage occurs

• How one county fire department ensures the fastest response times

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  Cradlepoint’s in-vehicle networking solution offers the always-on connectivity the department needs for its new automatic vehicle location dispatching systems

• FirstNet announces new improvements for 2019

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  AT&T plans to roll out a number of improvements to FirstNet this year

• Texas bill would make data ‘throttling’ in disaster zones illegal

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  HB 1426 would make it illegal to “impair or degrade” mobile data in disaster zones

• Fire chief wants changes in wake of Las Vegas mass shooting

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  A Nevada fire chief says he wants to bypass state lawmakers to get changes made

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