First to answer the call now considered first responders

ANSWERING THE CALL Sioux County dispatcher, Courtney McKee, enters an emergency 9-1-1-call into the paging system at the Sioux County Law Enforcement Center. Dispatchers are required to relay information to emergency responders or law enforcement officers while getting important details from frantic 9-1-1 callers, a job now classified by the Iowa code as first responder….