Broome County Emergency Services

A massive project to improve the public safety radio system in Broome County is underway.

Work on developing a new special operations and training facility for Broome County is nearing completion.

Broome County Emergency Services will begin taking text message 911 calls next year.

Jerry Marinich has been chosen by Broome County Executive Debra Preston to be director of emergency services. The 63-year-old Marinich is chairman of the county legislature. He plans to resign from the legislative seat to take the new position...

The man who has been the director of emergency services for Broome County for the past eight years is about to take a job with New York state government. Brett Chellis has advised county officials he intends to leave the post he's held since 2007...

Public safety officials in the Binghamton area are working to update a plan to respond to emergencies caused by hazardous materials transported on railroads and highways. Broome County Emergency Services director Brett Chellis says special attention is being given to recent disasters involving rail tankers in the United States and Canada...

9:18 PM Update: The Broome County Office of Emergency services say that the 911 system and 7-digit police and administrative lines have been restored.  All lines have been tested and Verizon is investigating the cause of the outage. A telephone system failure is affecting the Broome County 911 Center...