At the newly-dubbed Emergency Operations Complex, county leaders say emergency planners, 911 dispatchers, and paramedics will be working side by side. The 20,000 square-foot addition came with a price tag of $12 million.
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KEVN) – The 911 dispatcher is where every emergency response begins. In an emergency, the amount of time it takes for help to reach you can be the difference between life and death.
The growing dispatcher shortage could cause issues in rural areas like South Dakota.
Orange County’s biggest emergency dispatch center is struggling to staff itself, raising questions over whether there are enough 911 dispatchers.
Call center operators are ringing alarm bells saying they’re already brutally overworked – they also warn that the impacts of so much forced overtime is triggering troubling questions about their own ability to handle the county’s next big emergency.
When you’re on Longboat Key and call 911, who will pick up the phone?
FALMOUTH, Ky. (WKRC) – Pendleton County’s 16 emergency dispatchers will soon be out of jobs, they learned at a specially called meeting Tuesday evening.
