A dispatcher works at her station at the Flathead Emergency Communication Center Friday, Jan. 13. Workers at the understaffed center have been putting in extra hours for more than a year as the county struggles to fill vacant positions. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
January 13, 2023
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911 dispatchers struggle with burnout amid staff shortage, warn it could lead to tragedy
With hours piling up and time off seldom seen, the overstretched dispatchers at the Flathead Emergency Communications Center warn it is only a matter of time until the work conditions there lead to tragedy.