911-dispatcher
Law enforcement has officially charged a California plastic surgeon with the murder of a patient. Allegedly, the surgeon named Dr. Carlos Chacon refused to call 911 after the patient, Megan Espinoza, went into cardiac arrest while undergoing a breast augmentation. According to NBC San Diego, the 36-year-old mother of two went into cardiac arrest during […]
A woman had been helping with answering calls at an emergency dispatch center in New Orleans last month when she suddenly heard her 16-year-old daughter on the other line, WDSU reports. “Mama, please hurry up she’s got a gun,” Tenia Hill told her mother Teri Clark. Hill was working at a McDonald’s when an armed robber came inside, and forced her and […]
A 911 dispatcher has been suspended and could be fired by the end of this month after she allegedly hung up on a woman who called for help while inside the Tops Supermarket in Buffalo this past Saturday where 10 Black people were killed in a racially-motivated mass shooting, People reports. Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz […]
ComplexCon returns to Long Beach Nov. 6 – 7 with hosts J. Balvin and Kristen Noel Crawley, performances by A$AP Rocky and Turnstile, and more shopping and drops. Secure your spot while tickets last! Buy tickets Last week, a young girl became a hero when she saved her family from carbon monoxide poisoning by using […]
A man reported a domestic dispute involving Brian Laundrie and Gabby Petito before police pulled over their van in Utah last month, People reports. Authorities in Utah released audio of a 911 call in which the person says he saw Laundrie slapping Petito. “We drove by and the gentleman was slapping the girl,” the caller said. “Then […]
A New Orleans 911 operator is facing arrest after she deliberately disconnected emergency calls without alerting other dispatchers, authorities say. Precious Stephens, 25, was fired from her position and is at large as of Thursday, as she potentially faces a count of malfeasance in office, after she reportedly didn’t obtain necessary information during the calls, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reports. […]
An Ohio emergency dispatcher’s sixth sense kicked in when a woman called 911 trying to order a pizza. Tim TenEyck received the call earlier this month, and at first thought the woman had dialed the number accidentally, Time reports. But when he told the woman for the second time that she had made a mistake, […]
An Arkansas 911 dispatcher has faced criticism after she was recorded scorning a woman who was drowning. As USA Today reports, 47-year-old Debra Stevens asked for help after she drove her car into water. Audio of the incident has surfaced online, and at one point, the dispatcher told Stevens to shut up, moments before she […]
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