Gasconade County E-911 management staff along with the Gasconade County Emergency Management Director recently met with Tom Berryhill, an expert amateur radio (HAMM) operator from our community, to initiate the first stage of a coordinated effort to establish amateur radio communications in the 911 center located in Rosebud and the
Gasconade County’s emergency 911 operations will transmit from a tower the agency is having built beside its Rosebud dispatching center after directors learned in June of a 450-percent increase in rental fees for placing antennas on a leased tower. E-911 board members opted to budget $55,000 for the project after
The following Statistics are from January 1st through December 31st, 2018. In 2018, Gasconade County E-911 answered 7,779 911 calls. 80% of these call were received from cell phones. Following are the number of calls dispatched and handled by the agencies we dispatch for: Gasconade County Sheriff’s Office 10,732 Owensville
Have you ever received a call from a 9-1-1 operator saying something like: “We received a 9-1-1 call from this number, do you have an emergency?” More and more 9-1-1 centers, including ours are getting overwhelmed with “Pocket Dials” or “Accidental” 9-1-1 calls. Although it may seem like a simple