The Associated Press
KERRVILLE, Texas- An emergency dispatcher found herself with a crisis of her own when a fellow dispatcher passed out while taking a call and later died.
Natalie Dunlap, a Kerr County dispatcher, took the telephone and calmly dealt with the emergency call, authorities said. She then summoned help and performed CPR on her 59-year-old colleague, Aaron Dale Saul, while maintaining her post.
“How she ever kept it together, I don’t know,” Sheriff Rusty Hierhol zer said. “But that’s what we expect of our dispatchers.”
Saul, who had complained about feeling dizzy, was taken to Sid Peterson Memorial Hospital, where he died Tuesday.
Officials said Wednesday night the cause of death had not been determined.