The County Council approved spending roughly $99,600 to upgrade mapping software. The intention, the county administrator ...

Fire department leaders point to research linking gradually increasing alert volume to smaller heart-rate increases.

One of Cabell County 911's original voices is officially signing off.

A study found that alert systems using an immediately loud sound increased firefighter heart rates by a median of seven beats a minute, compared with five beats a minute under a system that phased in ...

The department is taking a gentler approach to alerting firefighters of incoming calls, with alarms that start softly and a calm recorded voice.

Coweta County 911 in Newnan, Ga., has implemented The Monitoring Association’s Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) Service to digitally deliver alarm notifications into ...

All emergency calls to 911 will continue to be answered by trained dispatchers, according to the sheriff's office.

At the Barron County Dispatch Center Tuesday morning, March 3, 2026, a “test text message” showed up on dispatcher Paul Brooten’s screen, in the county dispatch center on the south ...