dispatcher
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An area fire dispatcher asked emergency crews just after 01:00 EDT to prepare to meet a plane with an "electrical issue".
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
“I met him a couple times over here by my job,” she told the dispatcher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
He was an airline dispatcher a few decades ago and says aircraft swaps, due to canceled or delayed flights, maintenance or other issues, were simpler then because planes weren’t as full and so subdivided.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
It was, recalled the EMS dispatcher on duty that night in Queens, “a horror.”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
You sat and sat until the dispatcher either sent you out on a job or sent you home.
From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler
While the sergeant stopped to investigate, police dispatchers were simultaneously getting 911 calls about the incident, according to the release.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026
One such company is Aurelian, which sells software that coaches 911 dispatchers and automates nonemergency calls.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
The one year pay deal covers Menzies dispatchers, allocators, airside agents, and controllers.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
According to recordings of dispatch audio from San Diego police reviewed by The Times, dispatchers told officers in the field at approximately 11:05 a.m. to be on the lookout for a “possible terroristic threat.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
It was an odd and familiar sound—Joe Castiglione’s voice and the crack of the bat, layered with occasional farty blips and cryptic messages between cops and dispatchers.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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