What’s Your ECC’s Movie?
Sometimes, all you know about a movie ahead of time are the names and plot summaries of the films and maybe the actors. You might not know what is to come until you go into the theater or punch the...
View Article“Mission: Possible”
Picture this: The scene is set, the lights are dimmed down low in the Emergency Communications Center. Along with a faint hum of the computers, always powered, always doing their job, comes a distinct...
View ArticleBig Trouble in Little Charlottesville
Ole Jim “Hurtin” Burton pulls his dust-covered Peterbilt into the Downtown Metered Lot deep in the late-September night. He’s been hauling a load all the way from Oxnard and all he has left is a quick...
View ArticleEchoes of the Siren: Dispatch
In the heart of a bustling city lies the nerve center of emergency response: the 911 communications center. Here, a diverse team of dedicated operators, dispatchers, and supervisors work tirelessly...
View ArticleFear and Loathing at the APCO Conference
An oddball dispatcher and their associate attend the APCO conference in Las Vegas at the Circus Circus. Fighting a cold, the dispatcher takes an excessive amount of cough medicine to try and attend the...
View ArticleGuardians of the Dispatch
Picture this – right in the heart of our bustling city, a remarkable group of dispatchers transforms into the “Dispatch Heroes.” Led by the quick-witted and sharp Lead Dispatcher Emma, these...
View ArticleDial Tone Diaries
In the bustling metropolis of Red Deer, the emergency personnel is on the frontline, battling against the chaos and unpredictability of the city’s emergencies. At the heart of this controlled chaos is...
View Article“Dude, Where’s My Call?”
Synopsis: In the quirky realm of Bossier Parish, a law enforcement dispatch center faces an absurd and chaotic challenge – constant calls from alarm monitoring centers and relentless prank callers....
View ArticleWestcom’s Christmas Vacation
It’s Christmas time and Westcom is preparing for the easiest season yet! However, things never run smoothly for Westcom and its telecommunicators. Westcom’s good luck quickly runs out as they are...
View ArticleEmergencybusters
In the heart of Houlton, Maine, lies the Houlton Regional Communication Center, a 9-1-1 dispatch hub known for its quirky team of dispatchers. This tight-knit group of misfits may not wear proton...
View ArticleThe Breakfast Club
I think we are like the breakfast club, because we work with different departments and different teams, and like in the breakfast club we all have to work together in different ways in order to...
View ArticleA Not Quiet Place
If you say it, they will hate you. In Eastern Washington, a group of Emergency Telecommunicators are disturbed when a probationary employee comes on shift saying, “Hey it’s quiet in here tonight.” He...
View ArticleQuiet, Dead & Slow
It was one of those nights, the kind where exhaustion threatens to overwhelm even the most vigilant minds. Toiling away in the dimly lit 911 center, the dispatchers struggle to stay alert. Their...
View ArticleRUSH HOUR 2
Synopsis: When the Caller takers and dispatchers at the Prince Albert PSAP all wanted to do was finish off their 12hr day shift without a hitch – being it is the May long weekend – the rush hour...
View ArticleCall-Taken
“We don’t know who you are. We don’t know what you need, yet. But we have a very particular set of skills. Skills we have acquired over a collection of very long careers with very extensive training....
View ArticleDispatch Space
Luz has been working MF Dispatch for 21 years, Deb for 17. Over the years there has been a lot of turnover, and now they are just trying to get through the days until they can finally retire. Their...
View ArticleThe Best Little Dispatch In Mississippi
Disclaimer: All of the names and places have been changed to protect the innocent. I mean, who cares? It’s just a romantic musical, right? Big John Johnson, the Sheriff of Josh County, Mississippi, has...
View ArticleGraveyard Shift
Sleepy little towns never imagine that they could be the site at which the end of the world begins. So when the undead begin their hostile takeover by first infecting the Georgetown Police Department,...
View ArticleThe Lego 911 Movie
Ordinary LEGO Dispatchers who always follow the rules, are mistakenly – or is it correctly???- identified as special — extraordinary beings and the keys to saving the world. They find themselves...
View ArticleDispatch Mavericks: Code Red Skies
Plot Summary: “Dispatch Mavericks: Code Red Skies” takes us into the adrenaline-fueled world of the Westerville 9-1-1 dispatch center, where the dispatchers are the Top Guns of emergency response....
View ArticleThe Backup Center
They were promised a shiny new building to call home. They never realized what they would have to go through to get it .… It’s late February, all staff has been moved to a remote site deep in the...
View ArticleThe Unseen
In this county, dispatch is viewed as a mysterious oracle. All knowing, but only ever heard and never seen. It has been said, anyone who visits The Unseen never come back. People say it’s because it’s...
View ArticleStranger Things in Dispatch
Plot Summary: In a small town four dispatchers were receiving strange calls of activity from an abandoned house. They came together unknowingly that they would have to solve the mystery, however in...
View ArticleVantage Point
It takes each person in a communications center to make the job work. Each perspective helps, every second matters, and all calls are important. This is just another day in the lives of our...
View ArticleDispatch and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“Dispatch and the Prisoner of Azkaban” centers around the Umatilla County Sheriff’s Office and their life of being above jail book-in. Amidst the backdrop of escalating tensions within the dispatch...
View ArticleBucky The Dispatch Deer and the Island Of Misfits
This is the story of Bucky the Dispatch Deer and the Island of Misfits, located at a special communications center near you. The Island is full of communication officers from all walks of life, some...
View ArticleThe Manatee Menace
In the murky depths of a secluded Florida swamp, the moon cast an eerie glow upon the still waters. The air was heavy with the scent of decay and anticipation, as if nature itself held its breath in...
View Article12 Angry Dispatchers
As the 4th of July holiday was in full swing, 911 calls were flooding the center, it was evident that a public service announcement was needed to clarify what is considered a legitimate emergency! An...
View ArticleAce Ventura: Dispatcher
Ace Ventura is a Dispatcher for Kosciusko County 911 Communications. One late Friday night he was working the console answer the calls of his community. What started out as a routine shift, turned...
View Article911, What Is Your Emergency The Musical
Join the Greene County crew as they stumble their way through their shift song. Begin the day with the hit single “Why does this always happen at shift change” round out the morning with “No one wants...
View ArticleAladdin: The Genies of ROMO
Our dispatch center is like the cartoon Aladdin. Nothing is as it seems and we are all diamonds in the rough. Like Aladdin, our center isn’t much- but we have a great view! We also may be known to...
View ArticleThe Usual Suspects
Atlanta 911’s ECC Movie is “The Usual Suspects.” The plot is that on any given day, you can catch co-workers mentoring and encouraging one another, stepping up where needed, and working like a...
View ArticleThe Silence of the 911 Open Line
A dispatcher just out of training at Grand Forks PSAP must receive the help of an incarcerated 9-1-1 abandoner to uncover the mystery of the serial 9-1-1 open liner, a madman who has been calling in...
View ArticleCharlie’s 11
Williamson county was known as a tight-knit community and low crime rate. But that all changed when a group of 11 dispatchers at the local 911 center were caught in a scam that would leave citizens in...
View ArticleRide Along 3 – At the Console
For several years, alarm company dispatcher Justin has tried to convince Morgan, a veteran 911 dispatcher that he is worthy of dispatching at a 911 console. When Justin is finally accepted into the...
View ArticleThe Dispatch Club
A band of dispatchers from different walks of life endure a 3 am Sunday shift under the intensified pressure as public scrutiny grows, amplifying their responsibilities in an expanding county. This...
View ArticleCountry Critter Communication Center
13 “Type A” ladies make up a fun-loving family of dispatchers. However, as expected, with family comes the love, laughter, chaos and curse words. These life-saving lassies may hug your neck one minute...
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