Chicago OEMC

Hundreds of calls come in every single day to the 911 call center at the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, but recently dispatchers got an emergency call for one of their own. “I was actually on the stretcher and they were rolling me to the ambulance (before) I realized what had happened,” said Timothy Bingham. Bingham was wrapping up…

Hundreds of calls come in every single day to the 911 call center at the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, but recently dispatchers got an emergency call for one of their own. NBC 5’s Vi Nguyen shares the dramatic story.

While there is no “actionable intelligence” suggesting unrest will occur Monday in Chicago, the city’s police department says that it deploying additional resources all over the city and canceling days off for officers following the fatal shooting of Daunte Wright by a police officer. The department says that it has canceled all days off for members of several specialized...

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota spoke after Daunte Wright was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop near Minneapolis on Sunday. “It doesn’t need to be this way,” said Walz. “We don’t have to continue having these press conferences, and having what may be a routine traffic stop end in a 20-year-old dead, a family devastated and a community...

Officials in Chicago say they are prepared to implement safety measures if necessary after the decision by Kenosha County prosecutors not to charge officers involved in the shooting of Jacob Blake in Aug. 2020. Officials with the Chicago Office of Emergency Management and Communications (OEMC) say that they anticipate that things will “remain peaceful” in the city, but they are…

Michael Gravely, District Attorney of Kenosha County, Wis., announced that he will not pursue charges against the police officers that shot Jacob Blake seven times as he walked away, leaving him paralyzed.

NBC 5 Investigates has been following the case of Duane Raible, a Pennsylvania man who was alone in his Chicago hotel room last October when he suffered a severe stroke. He couldn’t reach the hotel phone from his bed, so he called Chicago 911 on his cell phone. 911 operators would not send help unless Raible gave them the actual…

NOTE: NBC 5 Investigates has compiled a complete transcript of Duane Raible’s 911 calls, which you can read here. When Duane Raible, a businessman from Pennsylvania, began to fall violently ill in his hotel room in downtown Chicago, he had no idea he was about to go through two major ordeals at once. One because he was in the midst…

NBC 5 Investigates has been following the case of Duane Raible, a Pennsylvania man who was alone in his Chicago hotel room last October when he suffered a severe stroke. He couldn’t reach the hotel phone from his bed, so he called Chicago 911 on his cell phone. NBC 5’s Chris Coffey reports.

Thanks to new high-tech upgrades, soon it will be easier for people to report emergencies in Chicago.