Archive | June 14th, 2016

Everett Housing Authority Assessing Suicide Prevention

June 14, 2016

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As a rule, MyEverettNews.com does not report on suicide. Unless the act by the person in crisis directly involves the public at large we aren’t likely to mention it. On Sunday evening a person apparently jumped from the 9th floor of Broadway Plaza in downtown Everett. It’s the second such time that has happened in […]

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Updated – New World Software, Not Dispatch Training Blamed For June 4th Failed Alarm Upgrade

June 14, 2016

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Editor’s Update 3:30 PM: I just got off the phone with Kurt Mills, Executive Director at SNOPAC911 in Everett. He was at a conference but wanted to call to express his concern with my characterization of the failure of dispatchers to be able tone a second or third alarm during the June 4th fire on […]

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