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Wake-up call: 911 dispatcher sleeps through emergency

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Imagine frantically dialing and help on the phone 911.

But instead of getting help you wind up with the complete silence followed by snoring.

It happened to a woman whose husband was having trouble breathing she dialed 911 and got this at all.

Hello.

No big -- -- -- second -- -- tomorrow morning and.

One hand on your pocket or head out there -- underneath it that they'll get it back.

And her not -- the old little.

I'm glad to know there's a second dispatcher yeah getting somebody might be asleep.

Eventually her husband was taken to a hospital in Maryland he's going to be -- the dispatcher placed on administrative leave.

With -- he was apparently seventeen hours into a 24 hour overtime -- maybe that's part.