Author Archives: Staff

The staff at the CallTheCops are all people who now or at one time did work as police, firefighters, in EMS and even dispatch.

New Indiana religious Freedom law changes how dispatchers operate

EMS

Indiana passed a religious freedom restoration act this week. The allows business to refuse service to gay people over religious feeling about homosexuality. The law does not allow EMS to refuse to respond to calls, but a loop hole allows individual medic to refuse services. In response now dispatchers have to ask if the patient is gay.

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City Installing Snow Plows on Fire Engines

In the wake of massive crippling snowfalls a number of communities are retrofitting fire engines with snow plows. The move comes after some cities found they were not prepared for snow falls and could not get emergency crews to some calls.

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