WASHINGTON — Questions are swirling about staffing issues at the DC Office of Unified Communications (OUC), after an off-duty firefighter who was shot, struggled to get through to 911.
On the night of Sep 20, off-duty firefighter Gary Dziekan, also known as Zeek, was shot and called 911 around 10:10 p.m. But instead of reaching a dispatcher, he was met with an automated message.
“It’s an automated system, just repeating, you know, ‘we’ll get you when we get you,'” Dziekan said…