A Volusia County sheriff’s dispatch supervisor helped save the life of a toddler found face down in a pool by guiding a person on the telephone on how to do CPR on the unconscious child, officials said.
Outsourcing is getting further out there. The communities of Girdwood and Whittier will now have their 911 calls routed to a dispatcher 600 miles away at the Sitka Police Department, which was awarded a contract to provide dispatch services for the next two years.
Thanks to a dispatcher’s awareness, a tense situation did not end up worse.
Last week, several Nebraska schools received calls about school shootings.
For more than a year, she ran D.C.’s 911 emergency dispatch center. Now in a suit against the mayor and the District, the former director claims she was fired for shining a light on problems plaguing the department.
The claims that Cleo Subido makes in her 36-page whistleblower lawsuit filed earlier this month paint a much darker picture of the troubled Office of Unified Communications than has been previously known.
