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Hart
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Location: Foley, AL
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 Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 3:43 pm Post subject: Allen, hope you and yours are okay |
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Best wishes to Allen and everyone down that way. A tornado tore up Enterprise High School, killing at least 8 students. That's just down the road from Opp.
Allen, keep your head down tonight.
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allensco
Flight Attendant
Joined: 30 Jul 2005
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Location: Alabama, USA
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: Thanks...we're okay here |
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Thanks for the well wishes! ALL is well in Covington County. I was at my day job today (9-1-1 dispatcher) so you can imagine the kind of hell we went through. It started around noon and just got worse until I got off at 7 PM.
We had some minor damage in the south end of our county. Power lines, trees and some roof damage. In neighboring Coffee County, where Enterprise is located, there was several fatalities (they're still counting, I think) and so far 18 is the latest number I've heard tonight. The high school was destroyed. News cameras (local stations along with MSNBC, Fox News, Weather Channel, etc.) on the scene showed the devastation. Looks like a bomb was dropped on the school building. Many other houses and businesses were destroyed or suffered heavy damage. It's a bad sitation there and will be for some time while the clean-up continues. The Governor should be in the area tomorrow for an arial tour. A state-of-emergency is definitely in order.
In addition to that, we had a fatal auto accident right in the middle of it all in a small town a few miles from the city I work in. Sheesh...it was a mess too.
My heart goes out to all those who are affected, either directly or indirectly. |
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Lizden
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All I can say is prayers go out to all....
Liz
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DaveChristi
King's Row
Joined: 03 Aug 2006
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Location: Bend, OR
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| Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2007 9:04 pm Post subject: Re: Thanks...we're okay here |
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| allensco wrote: | | I was at my day job today (9-1-1 dispatcher) so you can imagine the kind of hell we went through. |
Allen,
As a matter of fact, YES I can imagine. My sweetheart was a 911 dispatcher for 7 years. She started with Salt Lake County Sheriff's office 1999 through the 2002 Winter Olympics... and then in Mesa County Colorado (her center handled 13 different agencies) until we moved last September.
Since our move to Oregon she has been out of dispatch. Although she misses the work... she does enjoy having weekends and evenings and holidays off for the first time in 7 years. She also doesn't miss the 50 to 60 hour work weeks and going days without even seeing the kids.
They say only 2% of the population is even capable of DOING your job... and for most dispatchers, career burnout is 5 years. I have a deep respect for anyone who can pick up the phone 19,000 times per year knowing the person on the other end is having the "worst day of their life".
Hope everything is Code 4.
Cops remember: You may know where you are. God may know where you are. But if your dispatcher doesn't know where you are, you better hope you and God are on really good terms.
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tackerman
The Gates of Troy
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| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| Glad you're OK Allen. |
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allensco
Flight Attendant
Joined: 30 Jul 2005
Posts: 823
Location: Alabama, USA
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| Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:33 am Post subject: Re: Thanks...we're okay here |
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| DaveChristi wrote: |
They say only 2% of the population is even capable of DOING your job... and for most dispatchers, career burnout is 5 years. I have a deep respect for anyone who can pick up the phone 19,000 times per year knowing the person on the other end is having the "worst day of their life". |
Thank you Tom and Dave for your comments! And Dave, I salute your wife AND you for being able to deal with it. A lot of spouses don't care for their mate's job and it ends up causing problems at home.
Tis said that a 9-1-1 dispatcher's job is the second highest in stress. The most stressful job is that of an air traffic controller.
I've been at this for 6 1/2 years, so I'm a bit over the burn-out limit. I do enjoy it and it's definitely NOT radio, which is the job I dumped after 16 fulltime years. We're a small center and handle dispatch for 6 police agencies, 6 EMS services and 25 fire depts (volunteers included). We also have to deal with EMA communications as they're in the same building we're in. We work 12 hour shifts so I'm off about half the week and get every other weekend off...unless something bad is happening (hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.). Everyone I work with is very professional and the management does a great job at keeping everyone as happy as possible and the burnout at bay.
My relief is coming home to get in the studio and try for some jobs on those cattle-call websites, do radio production or whatever I can find. I switch to VO mode when I walk in the front door of the hacienda.  |
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