dispatcher
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At 8:35 p.m., after a dispatcher asked whether they wanted a ladder truck or the police, officials responded that they would force entry and requested help from D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
It was, recalled the EMS dispatcher on duty that night in Queens, “a horror.”
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
According to the EMS dispatch audio from June 14, emergency responders were called to McConnell’s Washington, D.C., residence for an “unconscious” person, with one dispatcher stating there was “CPR in progress” for a “cardiac arrest.”
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
Filipino ferry dispatcher Dave Delos Reyes has been handing out N95 masks for nearly three weeks to protect passengers against the smoke that a landfill fire has sent billowing above a stretch of Manila Bay.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
The dispatcher picked up at 6:48:45 a.m., according to the official recording.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Then at 12:50 a.m., reports of a traffic collision began to flood into CHP dispatchers, with witnesses saying a vehicle was on fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Minutes later, officials radioed that a caller who reached 911—an unidentified woman who said she wasn’t in the home and was driving from Baltimore to the address—had told dispatchers his front door was unlocked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 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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