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The Palouse’s regional emergency dispatch center is celebrating National Telecommunicator Week this week.
Whitcom reports that their dispatchers answered nearly 91,000 phone calls last year and entered nearly 65,000 calls for service and completed nearly 1,500 hundred hours of training. In recent weeks dispatchers Carly Collings and Ashleigh Witt received a commendation from Pullman Police Chief Gary Jenkins for an April 5th call. Chief Jenkins honored the dispatchers for providing an excellent flow of information during the incident. 17-year Whitcom dispatcher Jamie Keller received the first ever dispatcher of the year award from the American Legion…