Response time criticised in Powell home explosion

GRAHAM Washington (ABC 4 News) - It took a sheriff deputy fourteen minutes to respond to a call for help.

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TwinkleV - 2/12/2012 6:49 AM
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I listened to the Social Worker's 911 call. Not only did the dispatcher tell her more important calls would be handled first, he went on to waste time over the "supervising" issue. She's telling him she's on a supervised visit and so forth and he's asking how she can be supervising herself if she's supervising the children. This is not a quote, but anyone who listens to the 911 call will understand what I'm talking about. As I listened to the dispatcher, he seemed distracted. It did not seem he was considering the matter serious at all and almost seemed bored. All the questions he asked, hair color, eye color etc weren't even quick questions they were slow. Most of those questions seemed irrelevant to me, Joshua Powell wasn't on the run, he pulled his boys into the home. The Social Worker told him that. Precious minutes lost! The children should have never been allowed to go to their father. He was suppose to undergo that Psych test first due to the pornography found. The grandparents followed the law. They didn't do anything wrong. The system did! Family Court and the 911 delay. The Police and Fire responded in a timely manner, but by that time it was all too late. It took time to pull those boys in, possibly hesitate, ponder, crack them in the head with an axe and blow up the house. The 911 Op didn't even try to console the Social Worker, usually 911 operators are compassionate and helpful. Instead he sounded more like he was interrogating her. It really did! He may feel bad now, but it didn't seem like he felt anything then. The State should pay for the Social Worker's life time counseling and any diagnosis psychiatric or physical that becomes a direct result of what she went through trying to prevent this from happening. The only good I can try to find in any of this is that those babies are in the loving arms of their mother Susan once again. My apologies if I offended anyone ~Twinkle V.
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