Secrets Revealed By 911 Operators Will Change The Way You See Emergencies

The Things They Hear Are Sometimes Unbearable

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One can only imagine the types of soul-sucking things dispatchers have heard. Emergency calls can range from death to robberies and everything in between. Operators do their best to provide the needed help before anything tragic happens, but sometimes it doesn’t pan out.

Brooklyn Stabile, a dispatcher, told the Washington Post, “I’ve talked to parents who found their children dead, to kids who watched their parents die. It takes a toll.” Don’t ask anyone who works in this field what’s the worst thing they’ve heard. You probably don’t want to hear it.

How do operators cope with the sometimes tragic calls?