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As Owensboro and Daviess County have become home to more diverse populations, the city-county 911 dispatch center has also seen an increase in the diversity of languages they are hearing on emergency calls.
While Spanish and Burmese are the foreign languages that dispatchers come in contact with the most, a variety of other languages are being heard on 911 calls. According to the dispatch center’s records, between January and October, dispatchers received calls in Portuguese, Rohingya, Russian, Somali, Swahili, Thai and Vietnamese…
