Re: 911:: Digest Number 513 RE: Message 1 My evening

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Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 23:39:34 -0500

Subject: My evening

Tonight ended as one of the tougher evenings I have done in a while. Things

were

fairly normal til about 5pm, when 9-1-1 rang. I pick up, to the sound of a kid

screaming for help over and over...I manage to hear something like, " My mom is

beating me..she's hurting me...oh please help " . I immediately checked my ALI

screen...and the horror of it all is...that is the call I got the ANI failure

Freida,

Calls with children are the worst for any emergency worker. The sad news

about your grandson makes that even more difficult to cope with. However,

you coped! You followed your training procedures and dealt with the call

effectively. I hope that you have been able to discuss this incident in

greater detail with some of your co-workers or with CIS (as mentioned by

another posted comment).

This forum seems like a great place to relate to others who can relate (and

do!).

New group member, " older " dispatcher (EMD).