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When someone is choking, what do you do? What if there’s a fire? Or gunshots at the neighbor’s house? What if someone is about to deliver a baby?
We don’t blame you if you wouldn’t know how to properly handle even one of those scenarios. But for 911 dispatchers, they have to know what to do — and how to give someone the proper instructions, all done over the phone without the benefit of eye contact and hand gestures.
Working as a 911 dispatcher is no ordinary job, as you’ll see in Oxygen’s upcoming series “911 Crisis Center,” premiering Saturday, November 6 at 9/8c on Oxygen. The show takes place at the dynamic Chagrin Valley Dispatch, a nationally regarded emergency call center in Bedford, Ohio…
