I was doing some repairs at a 9-1-1 site recently that took a couple of hours. During that time, a lady that I understand is in her mid-80's calls 9-1-1 about 6 times. She had no emergency. Her husband was in the hospital and she kept trying to call the hospital, but whatever she was dialing wasn't working, so she kept dialing 9-1-1 and asking for help to call her husband in the hospital. I wasn't trying to listen in listen in, but when I'm at a 9-1-1 site I make it a point to observe what goes on so that when I leave, I am confident that I left the site in good shape. So I hear the dispatchers talking to the lady each time, and each time they kindly explain what the number is to the hospital's automated attendent, and tell her to press "0" to bailout to the operator, and that no unfortunately they can't transfer her and do it for her, and then they hangup until she comes back in on a 9-1-1 call again. Finally they radioed a sheriff's deputy to call them on a land line and they asked him to drive over and help her after explainig the situation. Later as I'm leaving, a deputy gets out of his car in the parking lot and I ask if he was the one, and he chuckles that he was, and that he knocked on the door, told her who he was and why he was there, she let him in and he sat her down and talked her through calling the hospital and getting through to her husband. Then he reluctantly shook his head and admitted that she's elderly and needed help.
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