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To the editor:
I read your editorial, “Help Dispatchers Help Us,” (3/30/89) with great interest: when you get to be the ages of my husband and me, emergency service becomes a distinct possibility.
Your editorial contained some excellent advice to us all as to how we can help emergency dispatchers save our own and others’ lives. You suggested that each resident could assist the fire, rescue and sheriffs department by posting not only the emergency phone number (987-8525 or 635-4488) by our phones, but also explicit written directions to our house.
As you so rightly said, planning ahead of time is the key to getting rapid service.
But I wonder if scared, upset people might still have trouble trying to communicate house directions they’ve posted. And what about young children who could perhaps dial the emergency phone number correctly but are too confused or unable to read directions?
So how might we better cope with such problems? May I suggest a very different approach to increasing efficiency in emergency service to Rappahannock citizens. Put all necessary information about every Rappahannock household into the hands of emergency dispatchers before there is an emergency.
One methods to accomplish this has been done elsewhere. It consists
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