{"id":48539,"date":"2021-02-18T17:35:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T00:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-dispatch-center-upgrading-network-for-911-calls\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:43:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:43:27","slug":"cortez-dispatch-center-upgrading-network-for-911-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-dispatch-center-upgrading-network-for-911-calls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez Dispatch Center upgrading network for 911 calls"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a7052894-f5bc-4c1d-b396-51a286dc7373&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1639\" alt=\"The Cortez Dispatch Center upgraded its 911 call technology on Feb. 16.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Cortez Dispatch Center upgraded its 911 call technology on Feb. 16.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of the city of Cortez<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Because of an upgrade to its 911 emergency network, the Cortez Dispatch Center is asking businesses and organizations to check that they can still reach 911.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses and organizations that have a phone system with more than one extension are encouraged to talk with their phone system provider and IT staff to ensure their system is configured correctly for 911 calls.<\/p>\n<p>Businesses may call 970-564-4023 to schedule test calls.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release from the Cortez Communications Center, Colorado is migrating from analog delivery of 911 calls to a digital method called ESInet. The Cortez Dispatch Center made the upgrade Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:anicotera@the-journal.com\">anicotera@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials ask businesses, organizations to schedule test calls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-48539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87403,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48539\/revisions\/87403"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48539"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=48539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}