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HOWLAND — When there is an emergency, usually 911 is called, but what happens when 911 needs to call 911?
Thanks to the heroic effort of Trumbull County dispatcher Katelyn Bower, a choking Shana Murphy didn’t need to find out that answer Thursday night.
“I knew I was in trouble,” Murphy recalled.
About 5:30 p.m. Thursday, right after finishing a dispatch call for a pursuit in Liberty, Murphy was eating a steak when she started choking. She said it felt as if the piece of meat went down wrong and knew immediately something was wrong.
“I sat back in my chair and kept trying to swallow harder to get it to go down and it wouldn’t. I jumped up because I realized I was in trouble,” Murphy said…
