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Five new women will lend comforting words and lifesaving instructions over the telephone soon as they begin new careers as dispatchers.
Laquanda Craig, Ariel Johnson, Seneca Horne, Lisa Ropp and Christy Montgomery were honored during a modest, but well-attended graduation ceremony Thursday.
Not only are those women, and all the other dispatchers at the Montgomery Department of Emergency Communications, a lifeline for callers, but they’re also a link for first responders, Montgomery Fire Rescue Chief of Staff John Petrey said.
“Every contact you make is an opportunity to make a difference in somebody’s life and if you didn’t want to make a difference, you wouldn’t be here,” he said to the graduates. “When I say your point of contact, I don’t just mean the citizens. Because the people you also influence are these ladies and gentlemen out here, some are in uniform, some are not, but they all are here to deliver emergency services to the city of Montgomery and everyone who passes through it. You are definitely their light in a dark tunnel.”
