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When you call 911, it’s just not about 911 telecommunicators providing help over the phone, but often getting help to your location. EMD Ira Charfauros says the role of a dispatcher is to act as a support unit to firefighters and medics. Charfauros, who has been an Emergency Medical Dispatch for almost a year and a half, he remembers the first time he had to talk a frantic caller through CPR, when a man, who was just watching TV, suddenly collapsed to the ground…

