PenCom handles about 85,000 non-emergency phone calls per year, he said. Often, those calls have to be put on hold while the dispatchers deal with emergency 911 calls. Based on testing ...

CANTON − Emergency calls in Canton temporarily are being handled by the Stark County Sheriff’s dispatch center as the city ...

WATD News asked Plympton Fire Captain John Sjostedt just how unusual a situation like this is? Sjostedt says when they were ...

EAU CLAIRE — Emergency phone calls in Eau Claire County spiked in 2024, according to the police department’s annual report. The report, which was released Thursday morning, showed 45,048 ...

An estimated 240 million calls are made to 911 in the U.S. each year, with wireless devices accounting for 80% or more of these calls. Making sure emergency calls connect and stay connected to 911 ...

William Greene of Bective Square, Phibsborough in Dublin was under a suspended sentence at the time for giving false ...

Denton’s new non-emergency phone number, 311, will be a 24/7, one-stop shop for city-related issues. Stuart Birdseye, a ...

“What happens when you have an emergency, and you have no access to a phone?” Ginther asked. Last year she responded to a call near Saint Clair in which a woman fleeing a domestic attack in ...

Notably, the boy first dialled 911 and started saying gibberish to the dispatcher before handing up the phone ... that can still be used to call 911 in an emergency but has no other functional ...