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911 publicizes its administrative number
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Barton County 911 personnel monitor calls in their office. The department is hoping to reduce the number of non-emergency calls it receives on its 911 lines. - photo by Tribune file photo
There are a lot of folks who call 911 when really aren’t facing an emergency, and Barton County 911 Supervisor Dena Popp is out to change that. “Over the last several years, the number of non-emergency calls on emergency lines has increased,” she told the County Commission Monday morning. These callers ask for road conditions or to report such things as animals at large, none of which require immediate response.