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Olympia resident David White’s blood pressure spikes. He calls 911, but hears only a busy signal. His wife rushes him to the hospital in a family truck. He eventually receives medical attention, but the delay and lack of immediate EMT treatment leaves him with lasting illness: kidney disease, glaucoma, migraines and vertigo.
On Dec. 9, King County’s emergency 911 dispatch experienced a service disruption between the hours of 3:15 p.m. and 4:10 p.m. The 911 outage affected emergency services in Seattle, Bellevue, as well as county-wide agencies from Snohomish, Kitsap, Clallam, Jefferson, Whatcom and Skagit…
