Fannin County, Texas – The regular meeting of Fannin County Commissioners Court began with the call to order and established a quorum with all members present.
Agenda item two was the invocation, David Woodson introduced Chad Leutwyler, from First Baptist Church of Leonard, who delivered the invocation.
Agenda item three was the Pledges of Allegiance which were led by Major James Manis.
In an emergency before firefighters, law enforcement, or EMS head out to help it’s up to the men and women who work at the 911 center to calm the caller down and get the right amount of first responders to the aid.
911 calls can be anything from someone who needs help after falling to dealing with a suicide or a mass shooting.
The 911 call taker and dispatcher need to get the message across to police and fire even on a day when hundreds are flooding the 911 lines.
WICHITA FALLS, Texas (TNN) – The first person you talk to during an emergency is now being classified as a first responder.
“I think it’s been a long time coming,” said Lisette Renfroe, a Wichita Falls public safety dispatcher. “We’re the first ones there, without physically being there.”
Renfroe and Carla Turner, the dispatch communications manager said they appreciate the new law that’s classifying them as first responders because for the longest time they were categorized as secretaries.
When a mother couldn’t get her pregnant daughter to a hospital in time to deliver, a Rockdale County 911 dispatcher guided her through the delivery of her first grandchild on the side of a road, Channel 2 Action News reported.
The baby was born on the Salem Road exit ramp off I-20 just after noon Sunday, the news station reported.
State officials in Arkansas are looking into an exchange that occurred between a 911 dispatcher and a driver in distress, who eventually died.
One America’s Meghann Dyke takes a look at the investigation.
Police say a hiker that was lost in Thetis Lake Regional Park over the weekend was found hours after ignoring instructions from a 911 dispatcher. On Aug. 31, at approximately 10 p.m., West Shore RCMP got a call from a lost hiker in the park. The hiker said they lost their way after sunset.
