A 911 dispatcher from Portland has won a big award. Stephen Zipprich was named the “911 Dispatcher of the Year” in competition covering North America.
PORTLAND, Oregon — A 911 dispatcher from Portland has won a big award. Stephen Zipprich was named the “911 Dispatcher of the Year” in competition with 50 other nominees from across North America.
For ten years, Zipprich has worked at Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Communications, where thousands of calls come in, many of them involving life or death situations.
Systems and protocols have changed, but the senior dispatcher at BOEC has always kept this in mind: “You never know
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