“Every day across the country, firefighters and paramedics respond to urgent calls for help. But many of those responders say it’s taking longer to make their way through congested streets and past inattentive drivers. There are simply more pedestrians, more…
Once 911 has been called the clock starts ticking. When will they arrive? What’s taking so long? Believe me responders are doing the best they can to reach you in a safe and sane way. The question then becomes how can they be…
When 911 is dialed are you ready for all that is going to happen from the time your fingers touch the keys to when responders arrive transporting you or a loved one out the door? Is your home, information and you prepared for…
No matter what you call those lumps of asphalt across the street, they all delay emergency response … to you! Do you know the differences in the thought of slowing traffic? If your city, or neighborhood group wants to slow traffic as it…
It’s a chilling reality – one often overlooked in annual mortality statistics: Preventable medical errors persist as the No. 3 killer in the U.S. – third only to heart disease and cancer – claiming the lives of some 400,000 people each year.…
When families had one phone, there was one central place for communication. Today, everybody has their own phone, which perversely makes it much harder to keep family communication centralized. If there’s an emergency, who do you call to get essential…
Street signs are something we depend on in our daily travels. When we use our cell phones to navigate our way to a friends home, a local business, or a family trip, we depend on street signs! We need street signs…
Los Angeles residents are often kept waiting for city rescue crews when nearby L.A. County crews could have responded faster. A 30-year-old plan to link dispatch systems hasn’t been implemented. October 20, 2012|By Robert J. Lopez, Ben Welsh and Kate…
Detroit’s emergency dispatch system failed early Friday morning and the city’s new police chief says he’s “appalled” that a redundant system did not kick in. The radio system used for communication between 911 dispatchers and Detroit’s police, fire and EMS…
From USA Today. Pashca West is in a bind. Calls for help are pouring in to the emergency medical dispatcher — a heart attack, a seizure, a diabetic emergency, a car crash — and ambulance crews are not answering their…
