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When a red light flickers on, help is on the way.
All hours of the day and night at Island County Emergency Services Communications Center, a team of first responders dons headsets and waits before a veritable wall of computer monitors for a call of distress. These first responders are invisible at the scene of an emergency, but their steady voices are often the first ones to provide instruction and comfort to Island County residents facing dire situations.
