WEST PALM BEACH, FLA. (AP) — A dispatcher at a Florida sheriff’s office has given her colleague the best Christmas present ever: a new kidney.
Amber Savoie, a dispatcher for the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, earlier this month donated a kidney to Jesse Mesa, a fellow dispatcher who was diagnosed with Lupus, an autoimmune disease that can damage kidneys…
HONOLULU — The family of a 3-month-old baby born on the side of a Hawaii freeway met with a dispatcher-paramedic to thank her for talking them through the birth.
Dispatcher and Paramedic Emily Zuckernick picked up the 911 phone call in September shortly before the birth of Kaniela Mahoe, KHON2 reported.
“I could hear (the mother) Anela screaming and I’m pretty familiar with that yell and I thought, oh, this baby is coming, they need to pull over,” Zuckernick said.
The boy’s parents said Zuckernick’s calm guidance helped them have…
A police officer who was nearly killed when a gunman dragged him with a car, a trio of men in blue who revived a heart attack victim along with a group of firefighters who rescued a man overcome by freon fumes and two DPW workers who freed a trapped elderly driver are among several Englewood first responders recently honored for their heroism.
Police Officer Anthony Gallo had stopped two upstate New York men in a car last year when the driver ran off.
Gallo bolted after him while Officer Maciej Mlynaryk dealt with a…
HIGH POINT, N.C. — 10 people shot in less than two days, resulting in two deaths in High Point.
The numbers don’t sit well, and neither does that fact that all this happened on the holidays: Christmas eve, and Christmas day.
But it doesn’t matter what day it is, 911 dispatchers go into each shift prepared to hear the worst day of somebody’s life. “A lot of the times people call us ‘the calm voice in the darkness,’ and that’s what we try to be to everybody …
A tax that Oregonians pay to fund 9-1-1 emergency services will go up in January for the first time in 25 years.
The emergency communications tax costs 75 cents per month on your phone bill, or 75 cents per transaction if you buy pre-paid minutes. That amount hasn’t changed since the tax first took effect in 1995.
Starting on January, 1, 2020, the 9-1-1 tax will go up to $1 per month or…
They’re the first people you call when you’re experiencing an emergency but FOX 17 News has learned Metro Nashville 911 dispatchers are experiencing an emergency of their own. The Service Employees International Union – the union representing the dispatchers – tell FOX 17 News the department is experiencing a shortage.
The SEIU that has been in talks with the dispatchers says the city is in danger…
