Our Influence

Crawford County E991 Communications is the centeral dispatch port for this area. We are in charge of letting local Emergency Personel know when something occurs in the Crawford County area which requires their attention. We also direct them to the incident and remain in contact, as aid, until it is clear.

What We Need To Know When You Call:
1. Your Name / Phone - in case we get disconnected
2. What's The Problem
- Accident: Car, Machinery, Boat, Fall, ect
- Fire: House, Office, Business, Barn, Field / Woods
- Domestic: Home, Robbery, Fight
- Disaster: Flood, Tornado, Electric Down
Who's Involved
- Injuries: How Many, How Bad
- Trapped: Where, How
- Health: Breathing, Unconscious, Heart, ect
Where's The Incident
- Address / Describe Location

What Do We Do
1. Record Your Information
2. Locate You on Map - Figure Out Who To Dispatch
3. Page - EMS, Fire, Law, Disaster Team
4. Dispatch and Direct Responders
5. Assist Responders
- Every Responder's call-back
6. Dispatch Assistance
- Back-up from Other Departments
- Air Amulance - Red Cross
7. Monitor Safety / Progress
- 20 Minute Updates
8. Close When - "In Quarters, Available"

How Do We Do It? Phone To Radio
CENCOM - Central Communications
- Six Call-In Lines
- CAD System Data Control
- Two Dispatch Consoles
Back-Up Dispatch Center
- Two Call-In Lines
- Portable Data Control
- One Dispatch Console
Five County Wide Radio Towers
Satellite Phone
- Communications Back-Up
- When Systems Fail

Below are images showing what our talkback was prior to June 2009, and what it is now.

BEFORE

PRESENT