Avery County native and Watauga Emergency Services 911 dispatcher Destiny Finley is fighting stage 4 ovarian cancer with strength and community support.
Finley’s current diagnosis is Stage 4 Metastatic Ovarian Cancer with Secondary Lung Cancer. Finley said the cancer spread with five total tumors present.
Virginia lawmakers in both chambers will consider adding 911 dispatchers to the list of first responders who are able to file workers compensation claims for post-traumatic stress disorder on presumption that an event witnessed at work caused their mental ailment, according to a pair of bills filed in the last week.
A New York 911 dispatcher reportedly took a call about a man being fatally shot during a noise dispute, not knowing that it was her husband who had been killed.
“The girl who was dispatching, she said, ‘Can you give the supervisor this job?’ ” Junita Reed-St. Clair, who was finishing her shift just as her 39-year-old husband, Dillon St. Clair, was killed in a longtime noise dispute with their neighbor upstairs.
“So I gave the number of the job, not knowing that it was my husband. I spoke to [my husband] maybe an hour or two before.”
In outdoor hot spots including Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Canada, 911 centers report a rising number of false emergency reports from Apple devices.
A beloved dispatcher for Westchester County’s Emergency Communications Center has been hospitalized, prompting support from colleagues and friends from throughout the area.
The town will upgrade its aging police department emergency communications system thanks to a recently awarded $2.1 million federal grant.
