A dispatcher is a communications worker who receives and transmits information to coordinate operations of other personnel and vehicles carrying out a service. Emergency organizations including police departments, fire departments, and emergency medical services departments as well as civilian organizations such as motorcycle couriers, taxicab providers, trucking companies, railroads, bus systems, and public utility companies, use dispatchers to relay information, direct personnel, and coordinate their operations.
A dispatcher
A dispatcher in Germany at work with an accident involving a tram
A fire department or fire brigade, also known as a fire company, fire authority, fire district, fire and rescue, or fire service in some areas, is an organization that provides fire prevention and fire suppression services as well as other rescue services.
Fire department vehicles outside a fire station in Middleborough, Massachusetts, United States
Areal photograph of a public display by the German Fire Services
Fire Station No. 1 in Los Angeles, California, United States, one of over 100 stations in the Los Angeles Fire Department
Firefighters taking part in a training exercise in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada
