[Scan-DC] Mont/Loudoun 9-1-1 issues

[Alan Henney]

As authorities in two D.C.-area counties investigate a flawed emergency
response to a June drowning, new documents show the 911 center in
Montgomery County had an automatically generated map that showed precisely
where the call for help had come from.

Emergency dispatchers in Maryland sent firefighters to the Potomac River
after a teen called to say her friend had slipped underwater while the
group was swimming in a “river.” The caller went on to say her group had
been in an “inlet” off the river and that they were in Virginia.

It took 36 minutes for rescuers to reach the teen, 16-year-old Fitz Thomas,
who by then had been pulled to a dock by his friends and a passerby who
stepped in to help. Fitz, who was preparing to enter his senior year of
high school, died.

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