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Starting Sunday, April 12, Newtown’s emergency dispatchers will join colleagues across the nation celebrating National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week.
This week-long event, initially set up in 1981 by Patricia Anderson of the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office in California, is a time to celebrate and thank those who dedicate their lives to serving the public.
But until two recent and popular 9-1-1 television series began focusing in part on these true first responders who pick up the line whenever someone…
