Front-line emergency staff pushed to the limit and looking to fill ranks
Frontier Regional 911 Supervisor Nicole Lathrop has worked twelve on - twelve off seven days a week at times to keep the 911 lines open.
When a man stole a rifle and began threatening people at the Jefferson County Fair in Madras on July 23, a 911 call was made.
Inside the Frontier Regional 911 Dispatch Center in Condon, some 85 miles away, a dispatch operator took the call and within 21 seconds, informed law enforcement personnel. The suspect tried to evade the police and aimed the rifle at bystanders, motorists and law enforcemen...
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