In emergency situations, the first “first responder” is actually the person taking your call. This week is to honor them, and they want to make sure you ...

In a heart-pounding roadside emergency, a dispatcher with the Santa Rita Fire District helped deliver a baby over the phone.

If you have a fire emergency, it’s convenient to have a working smoke detector. However, can a smart smoke detector take it a ...

Minneapolis officials have created a new emergency incident dashboard that they say will allow people to monitor categorized ...

La Plata County is urging residents to sign up for CodeRed, a public alert system that functions as a sort of reverse-911 ...

Our goal is to raise $15,000 by April 27, and we’re counting on you, our dedicated readers, to help us get there. The funds ...

Atlanta's E911 center has halved its average call answer time from over 24 seconds in 2023 to just over 10 seconds, but still ...

If you’re anything like the rest of us, you’ve likely “pocket dialed” someone on accident at least once. Or worse, set off ...

is charged with repeatedly calling 911 for reasons other than an emergency. According to the ... Justin Butler made phone contact with Sudnick, ordering him out of the house.

Being a 911 dispatcher and training ... where she learned to operate telephone, radio, computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems, process emergency calls, dispatch emergency responders, enter warrant ...

An estimated 240 million calls are made to 911 in the U.S. each year ... to develop the M911-Verifier, an emergency-specific model-checking tool. Tu's team also developed Emerg-Call-Dialer which is a ...