“SPECIAL GROUP OF PEOPLE”: Pocatello police dispatch center first in state to receive … (ID)

POCATELLO — Even after more than two decades on the job, Pocatello Police Department dispatcher Brian Smith is still experiencing situations for the first time.

Though he’s helped parents who call 911 remain calm while in labor en route to the hospital, he recently coached a couple through his first actual delivery. Just 30 minutes later, Smith provided lifesaving instructions to a moth er with an unconscious infant unable to breathe. With Smith’s help via phone, the mother revived her child.