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KANAWHA COUNTY, W.Va. (WOWK) – 911 dispatchers; answering calls and getting the community emergency help. A job that can be strenuous and sometimes scary.

“Like Metro 911 yesterday…they did a fabulous job,” says Jim Brown, a retired 911 telecommunicator.

Metro 911 received 700 calls in two hours; to put it in perspective, in a 24 hour period they typically get about 1,500…