"...please..."

Got what I thought was a silent 911 from a cell phone. We get silent calls all the time. Usually I give it about 10-15 seconds before hanging up and calling back. This time we were really busy, so I let it go a few more seconds while trying to drink my coffee. About 45 seconds into the call I heard someone whisper please.

So I end up turning my volume to max and hearing a woman whispering that she was kidnapped, and in the trunk of a car. I talked her through how to find and use the latch in the back to open the trunk...and the entire time I was tracking her location through a new location clearinghouse called Rapid SOS. The guy stopped at a red light and I told her if it stops that she should run as fast as she can and get to help. She was in the city, I had a pretty good idea where she was and had cops almost on scene. She ran into a gas station, gave her phone to the guy working there, I got the address and had cops there in about 30 seconds. Dude was pulled over about half a mile down the road and arrested.

FTM_PTB

Reacting In The Process Of Happening

My wife is a former dispatcher she had one silent call that turned nasty. Often it's butt dialing or a kid fooling around. So they would send an officer to check. In this though the residence had a current restraining order on the BF. So she alerts a car who books it over there lights no sirens.

Seconds before the cop gets there all hell broke lose over the phone. Screaming, "HELP ME", thuds, yelling. She alerts the cop who skids to a stop in front of the door, sprints through the closed and locked door and football tackles a guy in the process of beating his GF to death.

F-ck.

NoAstronomer

Witness To One

I had gotten a tour of the emergency response center when I was in the cub scouts. They had a call come in and told us to watch what they do. The person wanted to report a dead body gave the location. They said reporting a dead body by a taxi at the convince store. It's a suicide. The operator asked how sure he was it was a suicide the caller said it hasn't happened yet. He was the one.

The operator told him help is on the way. We heard a gun go off over the phone. The operator kept asking him what happened. Another man voice came on it was an officer asking if it was the dispatch. The person was dead and his phone call was still active. We heard another officer talking in the background. Everyone started stood there in shock and some people cried or screamed. We were escorted out and many people wound up quitting after it. I was too shocked to know what to say.

Kookabob

Trouble Finding The Words

A friend answered a call about a cyclist being hit by a truck. Except they weren't technically hit. The truck clipped the cyclist who was actually standing on the corner waiting to cross the road, and had their bike wheel sticking a bit too far over the curb. When the truck clipped the wheel it basically sucked the whole bike and the woman on it around and between the wheels of the truck.

The man who called it in was a pedestrian who struggled to explain this woman was basically swallowed by this truck and just disappeared. He couldn't see where she went and when the truck kept on going he realised she was somehow caught in the truck and was dragged a block or two. Thankfully there was traffic so he was able to catch up to the truck after chasing it down, because the truck driver never realised what had happened.

Needless to say, it was difficult for the man to explain how this all unfolded. My friend said this man had trouble finding the words but would answer yes/no questions. He was obviously replaying the moment over in his mind but couldn't paint the picture by explaining

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You See Yourself In The Victim

My best mate/housemate at the time is a dispatcher for the ambulance. She's a pretty stoic person and not much bothers her, but not long after she had her son, she took a call from a woman who had spilled hot oil on her two year old. She said the combination of the mother's hysteria, the child's screams, and the hormones from recently having a baby just really messed with her. She ended up taking the rest of the shift off. She had so many other calls that floored me, whereas she was just like 'meh, a day in the life'.

rhllordemort

My friend is a police dispatcher, and she once got a call of a situation of mass hysteria.

She said she heard screaming and dull thuds. Apparently the person on the phone was a party guest hiding in a closet. A drunk guy at the party had snapped and started beating people to death with a chair. Two people died and a third was injured. She called multiple units over and they restrained the guy.

Super scary.

i-just-draw-dragons

Just A List Of Awful

February will be 5 years. Scariest/disturbing...cant really answer that. I work hard on leaving work at work. But a few things stick out.

1: Agonal Breathing: sounds like snoring, but to me it's the sound of death. CPR calls are never easy and maybe half of your callers are in the head space to do CPR on a love one that is dying in front of them.

2: on the phone with a lady telling me her husband has been seeing a therapist for depression. She spends a lot of time ( a lot of time in our world is a matter of seconds) giving me these "unnecessary" details and final days he has a gun. And the next thing is her blood curdling scream because he just shot himself.

3: constant helplessness. When there is a true emergency happening aside from sending help. You're waiting and fairly helpless.

MiahWitt60

You Hear It All

Listened to a young girl choking and a guy screaming religious stuff at her. She was murdered... I listened to the whole thing. Still haunts me a decade later.

BlackIsTheSoul

Did the guy at least get caught and go to prison?

ribsforbreakfast

I don't know to be honest... I never found out the outcome and I stopped doing that job a few months after (not because of that call, other opportunity came up). It didn't even make the news.

BlackIsTheSoul

Enough To Quit

I had a co worker that worked for dispatch. She told me she had gotten a call from an elderly man and he said he had just beat his wife to death with a baseball bat. He was still on the line with dispatch when she heard a woman screaming for help in the background. The man told her to hang on as he placed the phone down. Then she heard a dull thud noise as he struck his wife again and she stopped screaming. He picked up the phone again and told her he was sure his wife was dead this time. Hearing a murder and not being able to do anything to stop it was too much for her. She left that line of work.

thatstaceygirl

These calls are harrowing. Thanks to all of our first responders.

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