{"id":13228,"date":"2016-02-28T22:16:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T22:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13228"},"modified":"2016-02-28T22:16:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T22:16:52","slug":"how-many-911-calls-were-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13228","title":{"rendered":"How many 911 calls were made?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7cc82baf-9b40-478f-ad1b-4bb3c4fdb38e-9112.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13214\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13214\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7cc82baf-9b40-478f-ad1b-4bb3c4fdb38e-9112-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"7cc82baf-9b40-478f-ad1b-4bb3c4fdb38e-9112\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7cc82baf-9b40-478f-ad1b-4bb3c4fdb38e-9112-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7cc82baf-9b40-478f-ad1b-4bb3c4fdb38e-9112-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/7cc82baf-9b40-478f-ad1b-4bb3c4fdb38e-9112.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You mean there&#8217;s a <em>third<\/em> 911 call?<\/p>\n<p>Interim Amarillo City Manager Terry Childers misplaced a brief case at a local hotel the other day and called the city&#8217;s emergency services call center not once, or twice &#8230; but three times.<\/p>\n<p>This is getting a little strange.<\/p>\n<p>Audio recordings of the calls have been made public. Childers&#8217; initial call was to report that the briefcase had been &#8220;stolen.&#8221; It apparently wasn&#8217;t. He wanted the dispatcher to scramble police officers immediately to his location. He said he wanted the cops the &#8220;shut down&#8221; the hotel while they looked for the item. Childers demanded to speak to the dispatcher&#8217;s supervisor.<\/p>\n<p>The dispatcher asked a series of questions, which apparently had upset the interim manager.<\/p>\n<p>Then he called twice more.<\/p>\n<p>Over what? A stolen briefcase. No one appeared to be\u00a0in imminent danger. No physical damage was done. Isn&#8217;t the 911 system supposed to be used to report criminal activity (robberies, assaults, those kinds of things), or medical emergencies, or fires?<\/p>\n<p>Well, the city has enacted some changes to the 911 call center as a result of the calls. Maybe the place will run more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still scratching my head over how a missing <em>briefcase<\/em> &#8212; which was recovered, incidentally &#8212; became the source of such frantic behavior.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You mean there&#8217;s a third 911 call? Interim Amarillo City Manager Terry Childers misplaced a brief case at a local hotel the other day and called the city&#8217;s emergency services call center not once, or twice &#8230; but three times. This is getting a little strange. Audio recordings of the calls have been made public. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13228\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How many 911 calls were made?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[290,6010,5621],"class_list":["post-13228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-amarillo-city-hall","tag-emergency-call-center","tag-terry-childers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13229,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions\/13229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}