Tell Me Exactly What Happened: Dispatches from 911

Tell Me Exactly What Happened: Dispatches from 911

by Caroline Burau
Tell Me Exactly What Happened: Dispatches from 911

Tell Me Exactly What Happened: Dispatches from 911

by Caroline Burau

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Overview

Inside the world of emergency dispatch, tragedy, boredom, and mind-bending weirdness are constant companions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781681340098
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Publication date: 09/01/2016
Edition description: 1
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Caroline Burau is the author of Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Insomnia 5

2 Small-Town Dispatcher 11

3 Somebody in Charge 19

4 Permission to Pee Denied 28

5 A Whiff of Ammonia 34

6 Regarding a Death 41

7 Monkeys on Typewriters 49

8 Cops 55

9 Missing 61

10 Tell Me Exactly What Happened 66

11 Starting Over 71

12 My People 74

13 Guns in the House 80

14 Doctor Phil Can Kiss My Hot Seat 83

15 Souls on Board 92

16 Silence 100

17 Baby in a Pond 103

18 The Dispatch Diet 109

19 Open Mic Night 114

20 Mothers 118

21 The Call 127

22 Active Shooter 132

23 Communications 136

24 Stella 142

25 Stay-in Alive 147

26 Missing Things 154

27 Jurassic Park 159

28 Babies 163

29 Gottaminute 169

30 Leaving 911 174

31 The Last Day 179

Acknowledgments 183

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