Resilience is often used as a term to describe an organization’s ability to overcome challenges or threats, or an individual’s remarkable ability to overcome adversity to achieve success.
But here in York County, resilience is something we don’t talk much about. It’s just part of who we are as a community – especially this year, when we endured horrible tragedy not once, but twice in the span of seven months.
On Feb. 22, 2025, York County’s 911 Dispatchers received the type of call they had been trained to handle. This call, and others that quickly came into our 911 center that day, was in response to a hostage situation at UPMC Memorial Hospital…