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Last week was National Public Safety Telecommunications Week, a time to annually reflect on and appreciate the people that are just as vital to the first responders community as the men and women who drive up to relieve our problems. Dispatchers are the calm voices on the other end of the phone from usually some of the worst moments in the callers’ lives. And those phone calls roll in sometimes constantly in a 12-hour shift. Dispatchers are key in making sure those calls turn into timely action by police, fire, EMS, and other frontliners…