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Kansas: Banquet Honors the Voices of 9-1-1
April 23, 2013During an emergency, the voice heard over the phone when calling 911 often is overlooked in the public service field, but for one week they are honored and thanked for their days and nights spent in a small room staring at computer monitors and answering phones.
Read full articleEditor Spends Night Hearing Redlands 9-1-1 Calls
April 23, 2013I did a ride-along with Redlands’ 911 dispatch operators because it’s Disptacher Appreciation Week. This was Carl Baker’s idea.
Read full articleLewston-Auburn Dispatcher Helps Deliver Her Fifth Baby
April 23, 2013LEWISTON — Three little words changed everything. “The head’s showing.” On one end of the 911 call, Andrew Colapietro, about-to-be father of three, on the bathroom floor with his wife. On the other end, Buffy Gammon, a dispatcsupervisor at Lewiston-Auburn 911.
Read full articleBlount E9-1-1 (Tenn.) Recognizes Exceptional Employees
April 23, 2013Blount County emergency dispatcher David Nelson didn’t miss a day of work last year and is always eager to help the agencies he serves at the E-911 Center.
Read full articleNewtown, Conn., Dispatcher Wins National Award
April 23, 2013You’re not going to get Newtown 911 dispatcher Bob Nute, one of two people who was on the radio in the town’s public safety nerve center when all hell broke loose the morning of Dec. 14, 2012, to say he did anything out of the ordinary.
Read full articleCalls Capture Terror of Texas Plant Explosion
April 22, 2013WEST, Texas (AP) — When the first call came in, it was just a fire. Smoke was coming from West Fertilizer Co. and an alarm was sounding, so a woman at a park just across the railroad tracks phoned for help. She was calm and matter of fact. The dispatcher responded in kind: “OK, I’m going to get them to put out the fire.”
Read full articlePrayer & Waiting in Texas Town Rocked by Blast
April 22, 2013Professional organizations and family and friends on Sunday identified four of the first responders who died: brothers Doug and Robert Snokhous, who were both firefighters with the West Volunteer Fire Department; Jerry Chapman, a firefighter with the Abbott Volunteer Fire Department; and Kevin Sanders, who worked with West EMS and another area volunteer fire department.
Read full articleAP Reports 1 of 2 Suspects in Boston Bombing Killed
April 19, 2013The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police in a car chase and gun battle overnight that left one of them dead.
Read full articleCrews Seek Survivors, Bodies after Texas Blast
April 18, 2013Rescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments for anyone still trapped in debris while the community awaited word on the number of dead.
Read full articleFBI Issues Photos of 2 Suspects in Boston Bombing
April 18, 2013The FBI released photos and video Thursday of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing and asked for the public’s help in identifying them, zeroing in on the two men on surveillance-camera footage less than three days after the deadly attack.
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