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KPATC was honored to present the Gibson County 911 Center with KPATC Challenge Coins for Answering The Call To Be Their Best Selves Every Day.

Our Salt Lake City volunteers visited the Salt Lake Valley Emergency Communications Center in Utah yesterday to honor a very special dispatcher - Logan Quintana - with a KPATC Foundation Challenge Coin. Logan received a call from a caller with unknown trouble. He...

Our volunteers were an honored to meet the impressive 911 professionals at Burke County 911 this morning! Burke County 911 on Facebook: "Our center was honored to have a visit from the Kyle Plush Answer the Call Foundation. We look forward to a partnership of growth...

Honored to meet the 911 professionals and law enforcement officers from Klickitat County Emergency Dept in the state of Washington last night during our virtual presentation "The Importance of Answering The Call To Be Your Best Self Every Day". An amazing group who...

We met Nathan Lee at the 2018 NENA Conference just two months after we lost our son, Kyle, in a tragic accident...ten years after Nathan lost his beautiful, young wife, Denise, in a horrific tragedy. Nathan was the inspiration for the KPATC Foundation. He taught us...

We were honored to meet the 911 professionals we sponsored for the Be The Difference Conference in Knoxville, TN. Our full scholarship recipients were April Morgan from West Chester E-911 in Ohio and Allea Zenoski from Lincoln County E-911 in North Carolina. The local...

Williamson County 911 on Facebook: " Taylor Kinney recently received a challenge coin award from the Kyle Plush Answer the Call Foundation, having been nominated by her coworkers. Taylor is being honored for consistently going above and beyond in her work and...

Superman, Superwoman, and Supergirl from KPATC landed at the public library on Saturday to share phone safety tips with kids, so that they can stay safe in emergencies.

Augusta 911 Communications Center on Facebook: "Thank you to the Kyle Plush Answer the Call Foundation for honoring Communication Officer Keisha Jenkins. CO Jenkins did an outstanding job by staying public service with a caller for over an hour lost in a wooded area....

Honored to share Kyle's powerful voice to the dedicated 911 professionals at the Illinois APCO Fall Training seminar today. It was a full house of men and women in the Illinois area Answering The Call To Be Their Best Selves Every Day. Thank you for attending this...

USA Today journalist, Jennifer Jolly, shares how cellphones provide lifesaving features. She interviewed Michael Martin, RapidSOS cofounder and CEO, to explain how RapidSOS works and share a few ways to set up your phone so it helps you when you're in an emergency....

Our KPATC volunteer was proud to share appreciation with telecommunicators at CALEA accredited SOUTHWEST CENTRAL 911 Emergency Dispatch located in Palos Hills, IL (Chicago area) who serve the following communities: Chicago Ridge, Crestwood, Lemont, N. Palos, Palos...

Honored to present KPATC Challenge Coins to Alexis Jones and Alana Amador from the Las Vegas Combined Communications Center on July 17. They worked together to locate a caller in need using all the tools in their toolbox. They were persistent and determined to find...

The KPATC Volunteers visited the Glenview Public Safety Dispatch Center Highland Park office in Illinois on Friday July 7, 2023 to share appreciation with their telecommunicators who were Answering The Call To Be Their Best Selves on July 4, 2022. One year later, it...

We were proud to honor two exemplary 911 professionals from Ada County Sheriff's office in Meridian, Idaho on June 6. Ashley Bones instructed a caller on how to administer CPR to a man suffering a heart attack - he was not breathing and unconscious. Ashlie Olsen saw...