Normal Situation or SNAFU?
Music City 911
Music City 911
4.8 • 909 Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | 9-1-1 dispatch. |
| 0:03.7 | It's a job I've been doing for nearly a quarter of a century now, and during that long, |
| 0:09.1 | long time, taking calls and dispatching first responders, as you can imagine, some of the |
| 0:15.1 | incidents that are called into us become sort of normal, routine. |
| 0:22.4 | Any dispatcher out there can tell you that sometimes they get bored of taking |
| 0:26.1 | burglar alarm calls or minor vehicle crashes. |
| 0:31.4 | Especially if you're in a big city, you'll be taking calls like this multiple times |
| 0:36.3 | every single day. |
| 0:38.3 | It gets to be a lot. |
| 0:40.6 | I mean, why can't people drive? |
| 0:44.1 | Am I right? |
| 0:46.3 | But those are very frequent and normal things to have in a dispatch. |
| 0:51.3 | The situation is normal. |
| 0:58.2 | I'm sure most of you have heard the acronym snafu. If you have, you know exactly what it stands for. If you don't know what it means, |
| 1:06.9 | I'll just let you hit up the Googles on the worldwide webs to find out what it's about. |
| 1:11.9 | You'll quickly understand. |
| 1:14.4 | So we have normal situations and snafoo's. |
| 1:19.3 | Both become somewhat normal, as implied in the words. |
| 1:23.4 | But just because something starts out as normal doesn't mean they won't end up being firmly in the snafu region. |
| 1:31.5 | I've got some incidents in today's episode that fit directly in with this. |
| 1:37.9 | Welcome back to Music City 911. |
| 1:47.3 | The first incident I have, I don't have a 911 call for it. |
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