Employees in the field, on the other hand, will use their mobile phones to accept new jobs and also send reports back to the dispatchers.
Investigators said Sunday night that the crew of the local train had reported back to the railroad dispatcher and "cleared their track warrant," which should have meant that they left the switch set to allow through traffic, said Debbie Hersman, the member of the National Transportation Safety Board assigned to the field investigation here.
The dispatchers repeated the addresses back to the callers before sending firefighters to the scene.
On Monday, he did admit making a false 911 call to get dispatchers to send him back to the woman's apartment after he had left the first time.
Ms. Balbert pressed Officer Moreno to concede that he broke the law when he made a false 911 call to get dispatchers to send him back to the woman's apartment after he had left the first time.
Newspaper columnists have asked how it was possible to acquit the two men, pointing mostly to a secret recording in which Mr. Moreno made some incriminating statements to the woman, and his admission to making a false 911 call to get dispatchers to send him back to the woman's street.
As the dispatcher connected me to the fire department, the old man dutifully reported back to the panel and starting fucking with the buttons again.
A female paramedic was reporting back to her dispatcher, and I heard something I haven't heard before or since a paramedic yelling, her voice tinged with urgency bordering on defeat.
There could come a time when a police officer is hooked up to a heart rate monitor, a gun sensor and a body camera, all recording the officer's movements, interpreting them and feeding back to a central dispatcher as needed.
Every now and then the radios on either side of him would emit a sudden burst of voices, and he would tilt his head back slightly, listening to the dispatchers.
