St. Mary’s County’s Emergency Communications Center Marks 70 Years Of Growth And Innovation

St. Mary’s County’s Emergency Communications Center – 2025LEONARDTOWN, Md. – The St. Mary’s County Department of Emergency Services is celebrating a major milestone in emergency communications, tracing its evolution from a modest two-dispatcher Civil Defense Emergency Control Center in 1954 to a fully modernized 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Center (ECC) in 2025.The county’s original center opened…