When you call 911, you expect to get help. You never expect that the operator will hang up on you! But a former 911 operator in Houston admitted she would hang up on callers when she didn’t feel like talking to anyone! She is a 911 operator. Her job is to talk to people and …
After only eight months as a 911 operator, Amanda Berlin became a hero. It was April 2016, when the call came in, Amanda could hear a man and a woman arguing, then the woman screamed, and the call ended. The call was from a cell phone and was too short to be traced. Amanda knew …
One night in the quiet neighborhood of Mount Pleasant, Tennessee a year back, an elderly man made a distressed phone call to the local police department. Turns out that the caller, a 79-year-old man had not eaten in two days.When the police got to his apartment, the poor man told them that his previous caretaker had stolen …
Six-year-old Karter Thorpe is a hero. He saw a man lying in a parking lot and knew that something wasn’t right. Karter was in the car with his grandmother, Carolyn Cook, when he saw the man lying on the ground in a Lowe’s parking lot in Virginia. Karter told his grandmother that the man was …
When an emergency is happening and someone is in a panic, you can hardly expect them to remain calm and speak eloquently. But apparently, that’s what Officer Robert McFarland wanted to hear when he picked up a 911 call from Adrianne Ledesma, 17, of Lincoln Park, Michigan. Ledesma’s father had undergone brain surgery three weeks …
You have the right to defend yourself in this country – right? Well, yes, but how much force you use is maybe not as clear. The constitution says we have the right to bear arms – but, you do need to have a permit to own weapons. A teenage mother was faced with a situation …
Kids are perceptive. They pick up on little things. If you are angry or upset – your child can tell, you don’t have to say anything, they can read your body language (or the look on your face). A 3-year-old from Brick, New Jersey, called 911 when her mom wouldn’t respond to her. The 911 …