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Washington County Dispatchers Celebrate Milestones, National Telecommunicator Week

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PENDLETON — The fourth grade students at Washington Elementary School donned goggles, gloves and plastic aprons, in addition to the now usual masks, and headed outside to rows of squid dissection stations set up adjacent to the school on Tuesday, April 20. The group of excited students found their way to their stations as fourth grade teacher Hunter Erwin began to give instructions to the classes. As the excitement began to get louder, Erwin shouted, “ink, ink,” the students’ hands shot up — fingers outstretched and waving — as they called back in unison “te...

While dispatchers like those with the Washington County Communications Center prepare for various 911 calls, one 20-year veteran of the profession says there’s always one situation she finds most challenging despite her training. This is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, celebrating the men and women who are the “first” first responder on the scene in an emergency. Shelley Reed-Wulf says being a dispatcher is very rewarding knowing she’s helped a person in a life-threatening emergency or put their mind at ease during a difficult situation. Still, she says there are calls ...