What’s Your ECC’s Movie?
Sometimes, all you know about a movie ahead of time are the names and plot summaries of the films and maybe the actors. You might not know what is to come until you go into the theater or punch the...
View Article“Mission: Possible”
Picture this: The scene is set, the lights are dimmed down low in the Emergency Communications Center. Along with a faint hum of the computers, always powered, always doing their job, comes a distinct...
View ArticleBig Trouble in Little Charlottesville
Ole Jim “Hurtin” Burton pulls his dust-covered Peterbilt into the Downtown Metered Lot deep in the late-September night. He’s been hauling a load all the way from Oxnard and all he has left is a quick...
View ArticleEchoes of the Siren: Dispatch
In the heart of a bustling city lies the nerve center of emergency response: the 911 communications center. Here, a diverse team of dedicated operators, dispatchers, and supervisors work tirelessly...
View ArticleFear and Loathing at the APCO Conference
An oddball dispatcher and their associate attend the APCO conference in Las Vegas at the Circus Circus. Fighting a cold, the dispatcher takes an excessive amount of cough medicine to try and attend the...
View ArticleGuardians of the Dispatch
Picture this – right in the heart of our bustling city, a remarkable group of dispatchers transforms into the “Dispatch Heroes.” Led by the quick-witted and sharp Lead Dispatcher Emma, these...
View ArticleDial Tone Diaries
In the bustling metropolis of Red Deer, the emergency personnel is on the frontline, battling against the chaos and unpredictability of the city’s emergencies. At the heart of this controlled chaos is...
View Article“Dude, Where’s My Call?”
Synopsis: In the quirky realm of Bossier Parish, a law enforcement dispatch center faces an absurd and chaotic challenge – constant calls from alarm monitoring centers and relentless prank callers....
View ArticleWestcom’s Christmas Vacation
It’s Christmas time and Westcom is preparing for the easiest season yet! However, things never run smoothly for Westcom and its telecommunicators. Westcom’s good luck quickly runs out as they are...
View ArticleEmergencybusters
In the heart of Houlton, Maine, lies the Houlton Regional Communication Center, a 9-1-1 dispatch hub known for its quirky team of dispatchers. This tight-knit group of misfits may not wear proton...
View ArticleThe Breakfast Club
I think we are like the breakfast club, because we work with different departments and different teams, and like in the breakfast club we all have to work together in different ways in order to...
View ArticleA Not Quiet Place
If you say it, they will hate you. In Eastern Washington, a group of Emergency Telecommunicators are disturbed when a probationary employee comes on shift saying, “Hey it’s quiet in here tonight.” He...
View ArticleQuiet, Dead & Slow
It was one of those nights, the kind where exhaustion threatens to overwhelm even the most vigilant minds. Toiling away in the dimly lit 911 center, the dispatchers struggle to stay alert. Their...
View ArticleRUSH HOUR 2
Synopsis: When the Caller takers and dispatchers at the Prince Albert PSAP all wanted to do was finish off their 12hr day shift without a hitch – being it is the May long weekend – the rush hour...
View ArticleCall-Taken
“We don’t know who you are. We don’t know what you need, yet. But we have a very particular set of skills. Skills we have acquired over a collection of very long careers with very extensive training....
View ArticleDispatch Space
Luz has been working MF Dispatch for 21 years, Deb for 17. Over the years there has been a lot of turnover, and now they are just trying to get through the days until they can finally retire. Their...
View ArticleThe Best Little Dispatch In Mississippi
Disclaimer: All of the names and places have been changed to protect the innocent. I mean, who cares? It’s just a romantic musical, right? Big John Johnson, the Sheriff of Josh County, Mississippi, has...
View ArticleGraveyard Shift
Sleepy little towns never imagine that they could be the site at which the end of the world begins. So when the undead begin their hostile takeover by first infecting the Georgetown Police Department,...
View ArticleThe Lego 911 Movie
Ordinary LEGO Dispatchers who always follow the rules, are mistakenly – or is it correctly???- identified as special — extraordinary beings and the keys to saving the world. They find themselves...
View ArticleDispatch Mavericks: Code Red Skies
Plot Summary: “Dispatch Mavericks: Code Red Skies” takes us into the adrenaline-fueled world of the Westerville 9-1-1 dispatch center, where the dispatchers are the Top Guns of emergency response....
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