911 operators, what call will you never forget?

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[Scrappydog]

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[janiceellery]

Not being able to tell someone not to commit suicide when you work on a suicide hotline is one of the dumbest rules I have ever heard of

[firebirdlightning]

honestly the dad calling about daughter's period i respect. does he know what's going on he does not, does he know who can help/give him information whichever's needed he does! should he have probably learned about periods before, yeah, but in the scenario he was in there are far worse things to do than call 911.

[ljn]

Former dispatcher, I have a couple of calls that I remember, but one I think about a lot is my uncle. The first call of my shift was my aunt calling. My uncle had passed away in his sleep. My aunt was too upset to notice it was me on the phone. I offered to go through CPR with her but she didn't want to. Had to go on with the rest of my 12 hour shift known that my uncle was dead. Worsted part? When I finally got home my dad, his older brother, had no idea that he had passed. No one in the family bothered calling to let him know. Got me thinking about how someone could pass away and their family could have no idea even hours later.

[CheetahFoxx]

Had a friend who was an ambulance driver. This was the call that made her give up her faith:
Police and firefighters were called after very big and powerful man had a psychotic break and was attacking his wife and infant child. When she arrived the man had already been subdued and put in the car. One of the cops was just sitting on the curb in a daze with what looked like vomit all over the front of his uniform. He just kept muttering to himself "He hit me with the baby." In the incident the man had caved its head in. When police arrived he started swinging it by the ankles using it as a club on the officers. The stuff on the first cop was grey matter. I cant remember whether it was other police or the firefighters who lost it, but one had to fight back the other from pulling the man back out of the car and beating him to death.

[NexusOfChaos]

i made it to 37:15. for my own health I cannot continue watching, nor do i intend to come back to finish. As horrid as what happens in this video is, it is amazing how well you handle it with such sympathy and care. I hope you and everyone who posted in that thread come out for the better soon enough.

[jakecarroll]

Story 47 makes me wonder how much the victim’s family knew. Part of me wants to hope they were blissfully ignorant to what was happening but part of me is cynical enough to believe that they had at least an idea what was happening yet chose to do nothing.

[mousepariah]

1:05:12 I wonder how many people realize these parents in all likelyhood had to go through this because the doctors/hospital wasn't allowed to perform an abortion. Because despite the babies being dead, that's what ending the pregnancy by medical means would be classified as.
It wouldn't matter that there was no life, and that the bodies could literily poison the mother if her body didn't terminate the pregnancy, there would be nothing that could be done because the parents and/or the medical staff would be charged with committing a crime. All because some holier than thou *[Language that will likely get me banned]* want to force suffering just because a sperm and egg combined .

[hellfire_rxse]

i love this channel because you have what no ai ever will. empathy, compassion and emotion <3 ilysm

[bwktlcn]

Out in the real world, I am an ICU nurse, PRN to my rural country ED. Seen a lot of people die. But when my Dad died from the terminal lung cancer, I had to call and report the death, get someone out to pronounce him, etc. Even though I listened to his heart stop, you still have to follow the rules. I kept it together for about a minute, and then lost it. I just wailed. That poor 911 operator. I was just screaming, cussing cancer, etc. Thank you for what you do.

[amandahayes]

Story 48 is straight up comical though. Death was like nah man I really don’t want you.

[tobydandelion]

Story 22 makes sense. I can hear perfectly well (so well I usually use earplugs for daily life) but use relay services for the deaf a lot, because I'm level 3 autistic and can't always talk on the phone. That caller probably had similar disabilities.

[TheSaraGames]

Former dispatcher at a University. I won't go into details but someone died. I can't forget. What I want to share is that it was so bad it changed how I trained new Dispatchers. "You can take the same kind of call a 100 times but the stars, planets align and the 101st call will get to you. Don't let it fester. Seek out someone you trust, councilor, if you are religious your religious leader.". I couldn't let new dispatchers go through what I had. I had to give them a fighting chance.

[hollyhal]

I found my MIL dead in her house. She was draped over a large foot stool. Called 911 and told the operator that I had found my MIL dead. Operator insisted I start CPR. I explained that it was too late for that, but she insisted. I managed to get the body off the stool and into the floor. I explained that her face and knees were black and her jaw was locked with her tongue out and the operator still insisted that I start CPR. Luckily the EMTs showed up. I know the operator was just doing her job, but I found that to be extremely traumatic. I was trying so hard to stay calm, even though I was crying, and explain that she was undoubtedly gone, but she just kept insisting. I even got that “so, you are refusing to render aid?” Question. For heavens sake, rigor and livor where setting in and this woman was guilting me!? I have great respect for first responders of ALL kinds, but some people just have no common sense.

[CNinjaa]

Someone in my town called 911 to report an animal being potentially abused as it was yelling and yelping. Well... the cops got there and? There was a mentally disabled 12 year old boy tied to a long dog lead in the backyard because his tantrums were too much to handle. I used to listen to a police scanner occasionally, and that was the craziest one I heard.

[permanentvisitor]

I'm not with emergency services, but I heard my girlfriend commit self game over with a handgun while I'm frantically trying to talk her out of it. I was 18 at the time. We had gotten off the phone briefly, at which time I had already called 911. The first paramedics arrived about 2 minutes after I heard the sound of the shot, followed by wet, labored breathing and a continuous splash as she bled very heavily from the new hole in her skull.
It took me better than a decade to realize that I had pretty serious PTSD from it, and I can promise that my life is not currently what it would have been, had that event not occurred.

[sadetucker]

I'll never understand why some people take in animals, but won't care for them.

[NiaJustNia]

Forced to carry stillborns to term is horrific

[RedHeadForester]

My cousin worked a trial shift as a 999 call handler here in the UK in her late teens. She was unfortunate enough to have someone call in to say their husband had hung himself just a short time into that shift. She was allowed a 15 minute break to collect her thoughts then get back to work. Unsurprisingly, she opted not to pursue that as a career.

[sarah.]

Do NOT use the pizza order thing. It's used as a prank call way too often to be effective. Texting 911 is an option now if you cannot talk for whatever reason.