Public Safety/First Responder Message

Music City 911

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime, Government

4.8 • 909 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Our 911 industry nationally since it's inception has been classified as simple secretaries. For the most part our pay and benefits have reflected this. Luckily a national trend is slowly taking place to correct this going state by state. Help us here in TN and other states gain public safety/first responder status by contacting your state representative and share the message in this episode. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	19% of the roughly 900,000 police officers in America today, 19% of them suffer from PTSD.
0:15.0	The number of 911 dispatchers who also suffer range anywhere from 17 to 24%.
0:23.6	I'm Brandon Hall.
0:25.6	I've been a 911 dispatcher with the Metro National Department of Emergency Communications for the past 20 years, and now host a podcast going over calls and experiences called Music City 911.
0:35.6	I'm making this recording for you today in the hopes it will help the fight in our industry to gain public safety status.
0:41.3	All across America, in most states including Tennessee,
0:45.3	911 professionals are classified as secretaries.
0:48.3	We are far from simple secretaries.
0:51.3	Collectively, we are always on the job. 24-7, 365 days a year. We work while everyone
0:59.9	else enjoys their kids' birthdays. We work while everyone else celebrates holidays. We work weekends.
1:06.2	We work at 3 a.m. We are always there to answer the call and not only to start help your way,
1:14.7	but to give you help while ground personnel can respond. Here's a good example.
1:21.1	Anilance with the emergency.
1:23.0	My wife's pregnant and water just broke and I don't think we can take a...
1:26.6	Okay, what's your address running the ambulance?
1:28.3	What's the phone number you're calling from?
1:31.3	Uh, seven.
1:33.3	Yeah.
1:34.3	Okay, is she awake right now?
1:39.3	Yeah, she's awake. We haven't slept tonight.
1:41.3	Okay, so it's coming, but then all of a sudden it just hit hard. Okay, she's breathing normally?
1:46.0	Yeah, she's screaming.
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