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With the introduction of texting to Loudon County E-911 Center, residents have another way to get help in an emergency.
“The state of Tennessee has been working on the Next Generation 9-1-1 platform, which will allow 911 districts to receive text messages, eventually video messages, pictures, things of that nature, for about five years now,” Jennifer White, local 911 center director, said. “So it’s been a statewide rollout and it just became an option to become live over this last year, essentially about a six-month time frame for districts…
