911 Calls

Outages have hit at least eight states this year. They’re emblematic of problems plaguing emergency response communications due in part to wide disparities in capabilities and funding.

Gulf Coast JFCS is one of three organizations in the country to receive grants under the community-police relations category of the NFL's Inspire Change initiative.

The pilot program has gained national and international attention.

Florida is among 32 states that don’t treat 911 dispatchers as first responders. Recent efforts in the state Legislature to change that have not advanced.

Polk County Fire Rescue is responding to close to 400 calls a day in Polk County, nearly 100 above the average.

There's a new person in charge of emergency management in Broward County. Tracy Jackson started as the director of regional public safety and emergency...

Emergency 911 lines were knocked out in seven counties last month in the Tampa Bay area for several hours. On Wednesday, telecommunication company…

Emergency phone services have been restored to several counties and cities around the Tampa Bay Area after an outage took 911 lines down Wednesday.The…

At first there was no hint of distress in the 911 calls, no sense of a crisis unfolding. But newly released emergency calls from a sweltering Broward...

The first 911 call from the Rehabilitation Center at Hollywood Hills didn't sound ominous: A nursing home patient had an abnormal heartbeat.

A small team of paramedics is quietly transforming community health in Manatee County, scheduling house calls and building relationships with patients...

Orange County Sheriff’s Office released another batch of 911 calls Wednesday from the shooting at Pulse nightclub. The calls released show the high...