Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Darlene Tiner, a 27-year veteran of Kimball County Dispatch, scans images from various cameras and systems on the third floor of the Kimball County Courthouse. Before that, she typed up fingerprint cards.
The Kimball County Emergency Dispatch is open and staffed 24/7, 365 days a year, to field calls for various agencies making response times as quick as possible.
Last year, county dispatch answered 7,244 calls for Kimball Fire Department, Kimball ambulance, the Kimball Police Department, Bushnell Fire, Dix Fire and, of course, public calls. On occasion, they receive calls out of Banner County for fire response.
Dispatchers sit on the third floor of the Kimball County Courthouse and often are needed to calmly answer and respond to calls from excited, angry or hysterical individuals. Dispatchers...
