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 Oakland’s 911 System Fails After Thursday Afternoon Technical Glitch What started as a PG&E outage turned into a hobbled 911 system for the city of Oakland, and the city’s 911 call center had trouble routing calls throughout Thursday afternoon and evening.
SF News App Promises Faster Oakland 911 Service, For A Price According to the FCC, 70 percent of 911 calls are now placed from wireless phones. Understandably, that percentage is only growing. But whereas landlines can provide emergency services dispatchers with quick location details,
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 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
Arts & Entertainment Photo du Jour To commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11th, Coit Tower is illuminated in red, white and blue on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. In the background is the San
SF News Atherton Student Calls 911 On Teacher, Gets Him Suspended An allegedly frightened student at Selby Lane School in Atherton called 911 from the girls' bathroom after a teacher freaked out on his students and dropped/threw a desk. The 13-year-old girl, Maria
SF News 911 Call Center Receives 566 Fake Calls In 5 Hour A Palo Alto 11 dispatch center got 566 phantom emergency calls in five hours, reports KTVU. "The siege of calls to the Palo Alto emergency communications center started Jan 13 at 8:30
SF News UC-Santa Cruz Grad Shot, Killed at Pentagon Hollister resident John Patrick Bedell, 36, was shot and killed last night after pulling a handgun at the Pentagon entrance and firing at guards. Bedell held a bachelor’s degree in physics from
SF News Tiger Attack 911 Tapes Released At the bargain price of just $35 dollars down at City Hall this morning, authorities released the emergency 911 tapes of the San Francisco Zoo tiger attacks. The attacks, if you don't remember,
SF News Emergency 911 Tapes of SF Zoo Tiger Attacks Released Less than a week after the fatal tiger mauling at the SF Zoo, much of the news that has (slowly) unraveled from the Christmas Day tiger attacks has been disheartening. From the downplayed
