In the heart of a bustling city lies the nerve center of emergency response: the 911 communications center. Here, a diverse team of dedicated operators, dispatchers, and supervisors work tirelessly around the clock to answer …
Ole Jim “Hurtin” Burton pulls his dust-covered Peterbilt into the Downtown Metered Lot deep in the late-September night. He’s been hauling a load all the way from Oxnard and all he has left is a …
Picture this: The scene is set, the lights are dimmed down low in the Emergency Communications Center. Along with a faint hum of the computers, always powered, always doing their job, comes a distinct murmur …
Sometimes, all you know about a movie ahead of time are the names and plot summaries of the films and maybe the actors. You might not know what is to come until you go into …
The second full week of April is set aside as a time to express our thanks and appreciation for public safety telecommunicators around the country. For those of us called to public service, being acknowledged …
We are one of the largest counties in the state and field thousands and thousands of calls for service per year. Our dispatchers are constantly on top of where their troops are and their well …
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