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EMERGENCY OPERATIONS CENTER
The E911 center dispatches for Columbus Police Department, Bartholomew County Sheriff, Columbus Fire Department, Hope Police Department, Clifford Town Marshal, Hartsville Town Marshal, Elizabethtown Town Marshal, Jonesville Town Marshal, and Indiana Department of Conservation Officers assigned to Bartholomew County. The center also dispatches for the fire departments of Bartholomew County.
All personnel are certified in the Basic Telecommunicator Course, Emergency Medical Dispatch Course, First Aid, CPR, Automatic External Deliberator, and the Indiana Data and Communications System (IDACS/NCIC).
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Station:
131 South Cherry Street
Columbus, IN 47201
Director:
Ed Reuter
Information
- You should call 911 anytime you need help with an emergency.
- When someone is hurt or needs medical help due to an illness such as stroke or heart attack, or needs emergency medical help of any kind.
- When you see smoke or a fire of unknown origin.
- When you see someone else being hurt.
- When you believe a crime is being committed.
- When you call 911, you will be asked several questions concerning your emergency. Try to answer the questions the best that you can. If you need medical help, first aid or CPR, instructions will be given until help arrives.
- When you call 911, don't hang up the telephone until the 911 operator instructs you to. Many times the operator will keep you on the telephone until help arrives.
- NEVER call 911 as a joke.
- NEVER call 911 and hang up.
- If you accidentally call 911, stay on the line until the operator answers and then tell the operator that you dialed 911 by mistake.
- NEVER call 911 to ask for information. Always dial the administrative telephone number located in your local telephone book when you need to ask a question.
- NEVER call 911 just to see if it works.