Old Rescue 61

FireCompanies.com March 1, 2016

1 week ago

This evening personnel from the emergency services community met at the York County Department of Emergency Services Center to discuss the pager outage that occurred over the past week and a half. The system was restored tonight to reportedly 100% capacity as needed equipment which was on order was installed.

Tonight's meeting was attended by county commissioners, 911 center staff, emergency services providers from around the county and other guests. The discussion covered what happened, why it happened and what was done to get the system back up. Personnel from departments around the county had to opportunity to ask questions about this event.

Most everyone in the room agrees while no one at the 911 center could have prevented the outage there MUST be a back up system established to provide life saving alerting of emergency services units in the county if the paging goes down again. Any device that relies on technology is subject to a glitch or error however if it occurs we cannot be without a paging system for 11 days.

The future will most likely hold conversations and meetings to determine what options are available to establish a back up alerting/paging system in York County. ALL field providers are urged to attend county meetings to keep up to date on any progress or options made available.

Once again, thank you to all personnel who monitored the radios for calls while paging was done. All residents in York County should thank their local Fire and EMS agencies for the dedication they shown during this event. Hopefully they will get a good night sleep tonight.

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Paging system update

As previously mentioned the York County 911 paging system crashed a week and a half ago and caused all emergency services to come up with a way to alert their members when an emergency call occurred. Hundreds of firefighters and EMS providers across the county manned stations and continued to listen to the dispatch talkgropup for calls in their districts.

The 911 center staff worked hard to make temporary workarounds to partially restore some of the paving capabilities. Today we were notified the necessary equipment has arrived to fully restore the county wide paging/alerting system. It is hoped by 5pm this afternoon the system will be fully restored.

Tonight a meeting will occur at the 911 center to go over what happened, what was done, and what can be done so this NEVER happens again. Hopefully level headed discussions will provide a path to keeping paging up and running.

I wish to thank ALL members who made sure our department did not miss a call, 24/7, for over the 10 days. Your professionalism is humbling.

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