Posted on 10/10/2012 9:09:33 AM PDT by TurboZamboni
Emergency communications officials say some of the 911 calls made during a shooting rampage at a Minneapolis sign company went unanswered.
Communications director Heather Hunt says as many as six people who made 911 calls hung up when no one answered. It's one of the reasons why the city will set up a recorded message to play if 911 callers don't get an answer within 10 seconds. The recording will tell the callers to hang on until an operator is available.
The Star Tribune says 16 calls related to the shooting at Accent Signage System were answered. And police responded within 5 ½ minutes, faster than the average response time.
The Sept. 27 shooting left six people dead, including the gunman, and three wounded. It was Minnesota's deadliest workplace shooting.
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Yeah, that'll fix it..............liberals are sooooooo stooopid..............
Forward all 911 calls to Al Franken.
So, we all get a decades’ worth of worthless 911 charges on our phone service back. Woopie. /sarcasm
The recording will tell the callers to hang on until an operator is available.
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...will there also be soothing music ?
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some union-sponsored rule that all the operators take their break at the same time so that no one has to deal with extra call volume when someone else is on break at a different time.
Considering the probable extremely high volume of 911 calls during that shooting, the fact that only 6 people got no answer is really no cause for alarm.
During the attack on the WTC on 9/11, how many calls to 911 went unanswered ?
What a relief! They showed up before he had time to get off more than a hundred or so rounds.
They were busy. Talking on their Obama phone?
Yep, that'll do it.
Maybe, in the quest for higher and higher service to the community, they should go video, and put a camera in the toilet stall so the caller can watch the operator wipe her butt. Proof positive that the "an operator [will soon be] available.
If you are being attacked with a knife or a gun...press 1. If you have been slightly inconvenienced at a McDonald’s drive through ... press 2. If you are looking for your Obama phone ... press 3.
Google Brittany Zimmerman if you think 5 minutes is long!
(hint: 48)
Google Brittany Zimmerman if you think 5 minutes is long!
(hint: 48)
6th Victim of Minneapolis Workplace Shooting Dies
http://richfield.patch.com/articles/6th-victim-of-minneapolis-workplace-shooting-dies
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