An ongoing debate across Alaska over the past few years about how to improve emergency dispatch service has resulted in an administrative order from Gov. Mike Dunleavy to establish the Alaska 911 Advisory Board.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An ongoing debate across Alaska over the past few years about how to improve emergency dispatch service has resulted in anissued by the governor’s office Thursday said the board “will help improve public safety response” across the state.
“Declared disasters occur in Alaska every 90 days,” Dunleavy said in the press release. “Personal emergencies happen every day in urban centers and in villages and beyond. It’s imperative that our emergency response is comprehensive and coordinated statewide.” “Our dispatchers need to know places that are not on maps, they need to be able to know who they can contact in a community to respond to an emergency, and you lose all of that once you start consolidating dispatch centers out of different regions,” Dial said.
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