(TNS) - The July 19 Microsoft glitch that caused outages of computer systems globally also affected Owensboro-Daviess County 911 dispatch. But Director Paul Nave said the 911 center’s emergency backup ...

Imagine this: your chest tightens, breathing becomes difficult, and you know something isn’t right. You reach for your phone, dial 9-1-1, and within moments, help is on the way. But what happens ...

President Trump says Iran and Israel have agreed to a ceasefire just hours after Iran's retaliatory strikes on a U.S. base in Qatar. The First Alert Weather Team is tracking the first heat wave of the ...

Stanislaus County leaders came to a tenuous compromise over a 911 dispatch service upgrade. Supervisors approved agreements for county agencies including the Sheriff’s Office to connect to a new ...

Springfield city officials said the computer-aided 9-1-1 dispatch system emergency responders use to communicate with the county combined dispatch center has been down for several days and is “causing ...

A 911 dispatcher responds to a call on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at the Macon-Bibb County 911 Communications Center in Macon, Georgia. Dispatchers rank calls based on severity, which prompts how quickly ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., JUNE 27: D.C.'s 911 call center recruits new employees during a “Prospect Day” at the headquarters in SE Washington, D.C., June 27, 2024, to bring in job prospects. The District of ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — The Metropolitan Police Department is launching an investigation into a recent outage at the city's 911 call center, 7News learned. On Aug. 9, officials said the District's ...

Talks are underway among the Lawrence and Mercer county commissioners and their public safety directors to consider studying a merger of their two county 911 dispatching centers. Chad Strobel, ...

Months before a man died following a computer-aided dispatch system outage, a Baltimore official warned that the ailing emergency communications network, which routes 911 calls to police and fire ...

An apparent cyberattack hit a Massachusetts town on Saturday, affecting the South Shore Regional Emergency Communications Center’s computer-aided dispatching, officials said. The FBI says it is ...