Ever curious about how busy the 911 center gets during one of the busiest nights of the year?
The last Saturday night shift of Stampede is considered to be one of the busiest nights of our entire year, especially if the weather is good (with Halloween and New Years the only two other night shifts that contest that). I decided to look at the numbers for that shift last night.
In the 12 hour period of my shift (1745 to 0545) we put up for dispatch nearly 900 calls. I wasn't able to get an exact number, but my boss and I estimated that we took 3 times that many (which would fall in our usual 30-50% dispatched/taken ratio) which means that we took nearly 2700 calls from the public in that 12 hour period. That boils down to one incoming call every 16 seconds for our entire 12 hour shift.
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