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Longest-serving Tompkins County dispatcher retires

Longest-serving Tompkins County dispatcher retires

Photo: Saga Communications/Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response


ITHACA, NY (607NewsNow) – The Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response (TCDoER) is recognizing a recently retired employee.

On February 13, Lauren Dickenson called it a career after 36 years, 9 months as a 9-1-1 dispatcher.

TCDoER staff and other community partners attended a small party for Dickenson, who retires as the longest-serving dispatcher in both Tompkins County and the Department of Emergency Response’s history.

Dickenson’s dispatcher ID number 5583 has been retired in his honor and will never be reissued.

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