A crash near Kellogg and Meridian sent five people, including four teenagers, to the hospital Monday afternoon.
The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Office says the car was reported stolen.
The driver ran a red light causing the crash.
This is just one of the thousands of phone calls 911 dispatchers take and relay to first responders.
This year the county is on pace of receiving 40,0000 more 911 calls than last year.
With that increase, they are looking to hire six new call takers over the next few weeks that will eventually become dispatchers.
“You always have to be prepared and do the best that you can and try to stay calm with callers,” said Rosemary Barnell, a lieutenant supervisor at the dispatch center.
She is looking forward to having more call takers starting in March.
“They’re our forefront and the dispatchers that are on the radio won’t have to multitask as much,” said Barnell.
“As our community grows, as we have more things that visitors are coming into Wichita to see and do, and we’re just becoming a more exciting community, a more vibrant community, all of that brings with it different challenges for public safety,” said Elora Forshee, director at Sedgwick County 911.
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