Tempe dispatchers provide help 24/7, hoping for the best but prepared for the worst

Autumn Horowitz, a Tempe dispatcher, said the best way to describe the job "would be safety.”

(Courtesy Tempe Police Department/Cassie Welker)

The Tempe Police Department video opens with Courtney Hubbard, saying: “911, what is your emergency.”

It's a phrase Tempe dispatchers say hundreds of times a day.

Hubbard is among the dispatchers the video saluted for National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, which took place April 12-18.

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