Oxygen Network debuted a reality based television show chronicling Chagrin Valley Dispatch's Bedford Hospital dispatch center tonight.
For anyone that routinely monitors CVDC jurisdictions it's really interesting to hear how the show's editors chopped things up, and took poetic license.
You'll hear a call for Solon Fire/EMS, then they'll cut to another dispatcher that is clearly dispatching a Euclid Fire call sign on an unrelated call.
One cutaway showed stock footage traffic signals with Indiana state road signs.
Most of the calls are genuine, and it's amazing to now see the calls that I heard months ago, to actually hear the 911 side, and to put a face to the dispatchers voices.
I would not want my agency on this show. It depicts too casual of a workplace and highlights many of the negatives of consolidated dispatching.
For anyone that routinely monitors CVDC jurisdictions it's really interesting to hear how the show's editors chopped things up, and took poetic license.
You'll hear a call for Solon Fire/EMS, then they'll cut to another dispatcher that is clearly dispatching a Euclid Fire call sign on an unrelated call.
One cutaway showed stock footage traffic signals with Indiana state road signs.
Most of the calls are genuine, and it's amazing to now see the calls that I heard months ago, to actually hear the 911 side, and to put a face to the dispatchers voices.
I would not want my agency on this show. It depicts too casual of a workplace and highlights many of the negatives of consolidated dispatching.