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A dozen personnel with the Auburn Fire Department and Auburn Public Safety communications were recognized by Piedmont Columbus Regional on Friday as the First Friday Heroes for the month of July for their work in saving a woman with paraplegia from her burning home in April. Catherine Griffith was working as a public safety telecommunicator at the time and said the Text-to-911 program was needed in this particular situation because the survivor is nonverbal.
