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Inside the world of emergency dispatch, tragedy, boredom, and mind-bending weirdness are constant companions.... Read More about Tell Me Exactly What Happened: Dispatches from 911

“At a pace matching the flashing lights on a 911 console, Caroline Burau puts us in the hot seat and shows us the madness, the sadness, and the gallows humor of a profession that serves and protects in ways we never dream. And by telling us what goes on when the microphone is silent, she has taken t... Read More about Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat

If her life is a box of chocolates, acid-tongued, sugar-obsessed Estelle Brown should learn how to pick them better. Her boyfriend's left her for a bulimic hand model, her roomate's skipped town, and her boss is in love with her. Fed up and In the middle of her latest of a lifetime of doomed diet at... Read More about Sugarfiend

You answer a call from a fourteen-year-old boy asking for someone to arrest his mother, who is smoking crack in their bathroom. You talk with him until the cops arrive, making sure there are no weapons around and learning that his favorite subject in school is lunch. Five minutes later, you have to ... Read More about Answering 911: Life in the Hot Seat