Parents share emergency experience with Perry County 911 dispatch
STE. GENEVIEVE, Mo. (KBSI) – On April 2, the Perry County Dispatch Center lost the vote to keep their dispatch local.
Now it will be outsourced to St. Francois County.
Ste. Genevieve parents, Korrine and Glen Morgan, took to Facebook to share their experience with the Perry County Sheriff’s Department and how the dispatch center was able to get help to their son so quickly.
Their son Bowie, four years old, was having a seizure and dispatch was there to walk them through it.
“He’s unresponsive, so she’s like hang on,” said Glen Morgan. “So she started paging up the ambulance, she started asking me where I’m at so I’m giving her road signs everything, she knew exactly where I was, then he started shaking, I was still holding his hand behind me cause that’s what he asked me to do, he said, ‘Daddy hold my hand’ we’re driving down the highway and he started shaking, and I’m like ‘Dawn he’s having a seizure’ or whatever and she kept me cool, got me calm, as calm as she could, without being there, just talking to me talking to the ambulance I mean it was amazing.”
Both Korrine and Glen are disappointed about the vote to move the Perry County Dispatch. They say they feel local dispatchers know the back road areas best and in rural counties that is what is needed.
Sheriff Jason Klaus would like to reassure the community that during this transition to St. Francois County, their goal is to maintain high standards of safety and professionalism in Perry County.
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