Frederick County Emergency Communications
Submitted by Brian Easterday
The Outstanding Performance Shift Award: for the evening of May 15, 2018, after receiving 7.5 inches of rain within three hours; a flash flooding event occurred causing an influx of emergency calls to Frederick County Emergency Communications Center. The calls ranged from flooded basements, a partial building collapse, to people stranded in or on vehicles, including 55 water rescues. Over 300 9-1-1 calls and almost 900 ten-digit overflow or non-emergency calls were handled in five hours.
Awarded were:
- Assistant Director B. Easterday
- ECM K. Brown
- ECM J. Worley
- ECS IV K. Willis
- ECS III C. Brown
- ECS III A. Nearhoof
- ECS III M. Rice
- ECS III E. Stackhouse
- ECS II J. Butler
- ECS II L. Lanam
- ECS II S. Ruby
- ECS II T. Ward
- ECS II M. Zigler
- ECS I R. Coolidge
- ECS I A. May
- ECS I P. Vecera
This award winning crew was honored on Saturday April 6 at the Tri-State Telecommunicators Consortium Banquet that features staff from Maryland, West Virginia and Virginia
