This is one of those days when I have to question if Rod Serling is not lurking out there and I’ve crossed over into the “Twilight Zone”. I just read in the newspaper of record for the Nation’s Capital that a DC police officer telling a dispatcher there’s a fire at a specific location isn’t enough information to immediately dispatch fire and EMS. Instead of sending the DC Fire & EMS Department right away, the Office of Unified Communications (OUC) needed four-minutes and one-second to process that call. The OUC director, Karima Holmes, told The Washington Post that an internal review shows this call, where two people died, was handled well.
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