While leaders say call volumes fluctuate and they're working to hire more people, Beech Grove Mayor Dennis Buckley says 'I am very disappointed.'
INDIANAPOLIS — Around noon Saturday, 13 callers were in the queue at the Marion County 911 Communication Center."It scares me a little bit. If I am calling 911, I am going to be in this state of mind that I need to talk to somebody right now," said Kelli Carey."19 minutes can mean the difference between life or death, so I am concerned.""That doesn't include the number of calls on hold for 12 minutes, 11 minutes to 9 minutes, all the way down to no time.
"I haven't had all the data for it yet, but right now we do have four incidents that happened close to the same time that flooded the 911 call takers. On top of that, we had two call offs that day that kinda hurt us also," said Chief Sellas."Call volumes fluctuate. [It] all depends on what is going on that day. Like if we had multiple car accidents or multiple shootings at one time, call volumes go up," he said.
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