Luzerne County 911 dispatchers couldn’t give callers their undivided attention in the past because they had to simultaneously search a database to pinpoint emergency responders who must be summoned to ...

For the second time in just over a month, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s computer dispatch system crashed on Wednesday evening, rendering patrol car computers unusable and forcing ...

An outage in the city’s computer-aided emergency dispatch system snarled some communications between Baltimore police and fire officials last week, briefly causing disarray as officers repeatedly ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy Scott Carter uses his patrol car computer in 2019. Deputies were back to using radios Wednesday as ...

For the second time in just over a month, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's computer dispatch system crashed on Wednesday evening, rendering patrol car computers unusable and forcing ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The L.A. County Sheriff's Department's implemented a "temporary fix" to get its dispatch system back online. (Jay L. Clendenin / ...

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 ...

The Danbury Fire Department has implemented a new dispatch system that gradually increases alarm volume to reduce stress among firefighters, enhancing response efficiency.

TODAY: (Updated 6:04 p.m.) A consolidated emergency dispatching system got a big boost this week with enabling legislation signed by Iowa Gov. Chet Culver, and the move is being hailed by both Scott ...

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department implemented a "temporary fix" Friday to get its computer dispatch system back online after it crashed on New Year's Eve, authorities said. Problems were ...