Protecting The Three

Mickey•22yo•Fire Medic•I Build Specialized Bikes•Country Girl•Twin•Enamored With Bees•Book Fiend•Pluviophile•Lady Lover•Honey Is A Food Group•Colorado Proud•October Baby•Otter Fanatic•Second Amendment Advocate•Work Hard, Play Harder This is a blog dedicated to my journey along the path of a 911 dispatcher. It starts with my application process and moves in to my training days and then days on the job, calls, learning experiences, and more•Also included: photos, stories, etc from other 911 dispatchers•"Between the thin Red line and the thin Blue line lies the thinnest Gold line. This Gold line represents those who rarely are seen but mostly are heard; The calm voice in the dark night: Dispatchers.http://www.thin-gold-line.tumblr.com/tagged/me

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Cheetos will never be the same for me

Me: *My Agency* 9-1-1.

Caller: *inaudible screaming and words I can't understand*

Me: Hello?! 9-1-1!

Female Caller: Hell-o!! I need the police here NOW!!

Me: What address?

Caller: *gives her address* You best get dem out here fast or I'm gonna kick his ass some mo'.

Me: Ma'am what's going on whose fighting?

Caller: Me I'm fighting the urge to kick his ass again! I came home and found my boyfriend in bed fucking some other girl! Worst part is ya know last week I was eating cheetos off his dick, and now this!

Me: 😮😮😝😝😒😒

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Me at work

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911 Pet Peeves - My Version

911 Pet Peeves – My Version

I am sure that every 911 dispatcher and call taker has their particular list of “pet peeves” – those things that happen, day in and day out, that make you grind your teeth in frustration, or make you want to bang you forehead on your console.  Here are mine, just FYI:

Letting small children play with your phone– it’s not a toy!  They have these things, they are made of plastic or wood, they are…

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So I recently came out as gay and my neighbor and I started talking. Soon enough we fucked and after the first couple times it became often, well I normally top but I bottomed for the first time and I had a tremendous pain, turns out I started bleeding and I got really scared so we called 911 and the dispatcher said that he had to keep his dick in me because taking it out could tear me more... I literally rode my neighbor to the hospital (ps the ambulance people didn't know it was two guys)

Are we doing this? Are we bringing back confessions?

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[thanos6]

When you work in 911, holidays are something that happen to other people.

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Should I dial 9-1-1?

Working as a 9-1-1 operator and dispatcher, I have come to the startling realization that SO MANY people don’t know when to call 9-1-1 and when to call the local non-emergency number. 

So, let’s play a game called “Should I dial 9-1-1?”

Someone’s hurt and we need an ambulance – YES! Call 9-1-1.

My bicycle was stolen yesterday – NO. If it’s not happening right now, you’ve got the time to google the non-emergency phone number. 

I just got into a car accident and I can’t move my car out of the road – YES! Call 9-1-1 so we can get officers out to you as soon as possible to block traffic and keep you from getting hit again. 

There’s a dog barking in my neighborhood and it’s keeping my kids awake. or Help, my power went out! – NO. I shouldn’t even have to explain these. No.

There is something happening RIGHT NOW that is a threat to a person’s safety or property – YES! Call 9-1-1. If there’s an emergency requiring immediate assistance, call the emergency number. That’s what it’s for. 

Basically, if I answer the phone “9-1-1, what is the address of your emergency?” and the next words out of your mouth are something along the lines of “Well, it’s not exactly an emergency…” you called the wrong number. Also, remember that the ADDRESS is the first thing we need! No matter how insane your situation is, I cannot send you help until I know where you are. 

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Amen. AMEN.

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This is what I think of the majority of 911 callers.

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City of Aurora 911 Dispatch process: 1) 20160720- Application✔ 2) 20160803- CritiCall Exam✔ 3) 20160817- Panel Interview✔ 4) 20160822- Conditional Job Offer✔ 5) 20160824- Background Investigation✔ 6) 20160831- Physical 7) 20160831- Drug Screen 8) 20160905- Formal Job Offer 9) 20160919- Academy Start

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I saw the on Facebook, and thought I would share it here. I know that to some degree, I experience several of these.

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If Dogs Had 911 by Reverend_Scott (via Greta J.)

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Never tell a dispatcher they just sit behind computers and answer phones.. That is the worst thing you could say. We sit behind usually 5 monitors (CAD, phone, GCIC, radio, mapping, and some centers have more) Dang looks like we’re not just on Facebook all day. And the phones that we answer. It’s a constant fight or flight. You can go from a call were your talking to a mother/father who’s baby has just went into cardiac arrest, or a wife that is in a domestic and is scared for her life, a child that’s calling in because mommy and daddy won’t stop fighting, a neighbor calling in because the house next to them is on fire and there are people trapped inside, someone just saw a car go by and shoot up a house, 20 people calling about the same accident with injuries possible entrapment. All you can do in that moment is stay calm try to get all the information that you can while the person on the other end of the line is having the worst day so it’s not going to be the easiest thing to get them to calm down and give you the info you need to get units rolling to them, all that while you have other ones talking to you. You get all the info you can, send units to them, that’s all you know. That’s how the call ends for you. Most of the time we don’t get closer. And the next call you answer is because someone’s dog won’t stop barking, or someone has locked their keys in the car. It can be hard for us to even care about those little things after speaking to someone who has a “real emergency”, but we have to treat every caller with the same respect. Even if it’s not a emergency to us it could be to them. We have a very high stress job. So next time you think that we just sit behind a computer and answer phones, see if you can go do a tour of a 911 center and see what it’s all about.

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