SF News SF Opens New ‘State-of-the-Art’ 911 Call Center, System Promptly Melts Down the Next Day San Francisco opened a brand new high-tech 911 call center on Wednesday. But early Thursday morning, the city’s 911 system crashed, and dispatchers were handling calls with pen and paper.
SF News Return of the Tuesday ‘Noon Siren’ Delayed Until At Least 2024 This is not a test… the Tuesday noon emergency siren was supposed to return last month, but because of COVID-19 setbacks, will not wail again for nearly three years or longer.
SF News SF's Famous Tuesday Noon Sirens To Go Quiet For Two Years In order for the city to perform necessary upgrades to the Outdoor Public Warning System the regularly blaring sirens we're accustomed to hearing every Tuesday at noon will be going silent for the next two years.
SF News One Third Of 911 Calls In SF Are Butt Dials Though this obviously can not be a problem that is unique to San Francisco, a report by a Google volunteer project team using data from SF's Department of Emergency Management (DEM) has found
SF News No One Knows Why San Francisco's Emergency Sirens Kept Going Off This Weekend Outdoor sirens r back online after temporary deactivation. The cause of last night's & this morning's siren activations are under review.— San Francisco DEM (@SF_emergency) November 9, 2014 Did you hear San
SF News SF Won't Be Upgrading Ancient Public Safety Radio System Until 2018 In the year 2000, San Francisco police, fire, and other public safety agencies got a brand spanking new communications system. 14 years later, they're all still using that same ancient system, and they
SF News City's New 911 System Is 'A Nightmare,' Say Dispatchers The City of San Francisco's brand-new, multi-million dollar 911 dispatch system is reportedly full of software glitches that have longtime dispatchers worried about the safety of police officers, firefighters and regular citizens who
