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I loved your recent insert recognizing our local first responders. I was, however, dismayed with the failure by The Bakersfield Californian as well as the leadership of our local agencies who failed to recognize the very first person to respond to an emergency: the dispatchers who answer those calls.

The only person to recognize dispatchers was Lavonne Hall who correctly acknowledged the highly trained Emergency Medical Dispatchers at Hall Ambulance (“National First Responders Day: We come together to assist one patient at a time,” Oct. 27). Our Bakersfield City Fire Department…