during my career i was the PIO for our regional consolidated 9-1-1 call center. we answered calls for and dispatched police, fire and medics for about 800,000-people in 15-communities. i did numerous interviews, tours and programs for citizen groups and community organizations, sometimes attended by reporters. i also did a number of one-on-one sessions for local and national reporters.
i always provided a “fact sheet” to each reporter with the agency’s “vital statistics”...average daily number of 9-1-1 calls, total annual dispatched incidents broken down by police, fire and medics. also included was a list of communities covered by our call center. i always requested and received a tear sheet or video of the resulting article or report and never, EVER, was the article or report accurate with respect to any of the information on the fact sheet. ever. not fake news but certainly not accurate reporting either.
to the pilot’s family...may he rest in peace