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30 September 2009

Caller tells 911 dispatcher: "Your house just blew up."
Out of 90,000 people who reside in Quincy, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston, Mike Bowes' was the home in flames, and he had answered the emergency call

Hang on - given there's likely only a handful of dispatchers covering the town, and the call that Mike's house was on fire has to be answered by one of them, it's not that unlikely it'd end up being him.

In fact, if you're a dispatcher covering a smallish area, the chance of encountering an emergency that in some way relates to you personally must be quite high.
posted by cillit bang 30 September | 08:58
I have a coworker who got stuck in an elevator once. She pressed the emergency call button and her mother answered.

I think I'd have nightmares about that. It's way too Freudian, or something.
posted by mudpuppie 30 September | 11:13
Wow!!!
posted by halonine 30 September | 11:21
When I was a kid, my grandmother was an operator for New Jersey Bell and we always knew that if there was an emergency, we could dial '0' and ask for Margaret. Obviously this was long before call centers were outsourced; when you called '0' you got someone in the big Bell building on Maple Avenue.
posted by octothorpe 30 September | 11:44
given there's likely only a handful of dispatchers covering the town, and the call that Mike's house was on fire has to be answered by one of them, it's not that unlikely it'd end up being him.

I think it was the unlikely situation that, of all the people in the town, HIS house would be the one on fire.
posted by CitrusFreak12 30 September | 11:58
Holy Crap!
posted by theora55 30 September | 14:22
There was also a landlord living in upstairs. Firefighters arrived within minutes and helped her to safety.

So... if it was a her, shouldn't she be called a landlady?
posted by Doohickie 30 September | 22:06
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