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DRACUT — Residents received no advance notice that the town’s police dispatch call center was in “crisis mode,” and would not answer 911 calls for seven consecutive nights, according to Police Chief Peter Bartlett.

From midnight to 8 a.m. the week of Jan. 4 to 11, emergency calls were answered by the Methuen Police Department.

“We did not put out a public notice for Methuen taking our calls for that seven-day time frame…