OROVILLE, CA — When you have a car crash, a fire, a fall or another emergency in the city, your call for help will be answered by a dispatcher at the Oroville Police Department.

NORTH AURORA, IL — A North Aurora police officer, an Aurora Police Department dispatcher and three residents will be honored by the Village Board Monday for their life-saving efforts in September.

YORK, ME — A power outage caused by the Halloween nor’easter lasted long enough in York to move backup emergency communications last Sunday to Biddeford and the personal cell phone of a York dispatcher.

FRANKLIN COUNTY, MO — For years, Franklin County has been working to integrate a number of new software programs into its dispatching center in Union.

CHARLESTON, WV — Russell Carpenter, 76, of Sutton, thought he was getting a pretty good deal when he purchased a 6.5-acre property for about $3,100 at the Braxton County tax sale.

DAKOTA, MN — If this had been an actual emergency, you still would have been notified, but maybe not before bedtime.

LONDBERRY, NH — Not happy with the way the Town Council chose committee members for the newly formed Dispatch Study Committee, the firefighters union asked to obtain more than 90 pages of email correspondence under the state’s Right-to-Know Law.