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GREENSBORO, N.C. — Dispatchers work around the clock answering the community’s calls for help, but some people are tying up the lines to 911 with calls that don’t qualify for emergencies.
“It’s dangerous to play with 911,” said Paige Cummings, a senior supervisor for Guilford Metro 911.
Cummings and a team of call takers answered 324,493 calls for help, 23,695 were non-emergencies.
“That’s a big number and a big chunk of unnecessary calls to 911,” she said…
