Every year, the Vernon County 911 Dispatch Center takes roughly 30,000 calls and National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week is a time to celebrate the work dispatchers do.
ROANOKE, Va. (WFXR)—The City of Roanoke says they are recognizing the contributions of their communications officers, celebrating National Public Telecommunicators Week from April 14-20. In 1991, Congress proclaimed the second week of April as National Telecommunicators Week. Today, telecommunicators, dispatchers, and communications operators across the nation answer hundreds of thousands of calls placed to 911 […]