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NYC Firefighters Cite Error in Dispatch
9-1-1 in the News, Job | Sarah | November 9, 2009 at 9:03 am
The firehouse at Queens Boulevard and 65th Street was only a few blocks from a fatal fire that erupted early Saturday, killing three people.
Yet an emergency dispatcher’s keystroke error sent two fire trucks from that firehouse — as well as four other Fire Department vehicles from other companies — toward the wrong address on 62nd Street, rather than the illegally subdivided wooden home at 42-40 65th Street in Woodside where the fire started.
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