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Identifier: belltelephonevol21mag00amerrich (find matches)
Title: Bell telephone magazine
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: American Telephone and Telegraph Company American Telephone and Telegraph Company. Information Dept
Subjects: Telephone
Publisher: (New York, American Telephone and Telegraph Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Prelinger Library
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Units i HE Control Center staff is incharge of a chief and has the follow-ing members: a medical officer, chiefair raid warden, representatives of thefire and police departments, the com-munitys engineer or director of pub-lic works, and representatives of thewater, gas, power, communicationsand transportation companies. Insmall cities, many of these jobs maybe combined. As mentioned previ-ously, the staff is assembled on receiptof the initial warning. Its function isto analyze incident reports and notifythe emergency services involved. As each member of the staff arrivesat the staff room, he places a call tothe dispatching point of the service herepresents, using the telephone at hisposition. When it answers, he ordersStand by for action. A private lineconnection for continuous, exclusiveuse between a staff man and his dis-patching point may sometimes be re-quired. More often, however, regularindividual message telephone lines at i 9 // 2 Telephone in Civilian Defense Organization 73
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TUE CoMTROL lloOxM OF A CoNTROL CeNTEM This is the main message center of the community. It is here that the orders are swiftlyissued to meet the situations which are revealed by the wardens reports staff positions prove adequate, sincea connection with the dispatchingpoint, once it has been estabHshed viathe central office, can be maintainedcontinuously if required throughoutthe period of emergency. Soon after the staff men reach theirposts and establish contact with theirdispatching points, incident reportsstart coming into the message room.Immediately after a telephonist com-pletes recording an incident, she sendsthe report by messenger to the staffroom. The chief reads the reportaloud. Each member of the staffpasses by telephone to his service dis-patching point such details as affect it. Tests may show that variations ofthe plan just outlined are desirable.For example, rather than passing mes-sages directly to their dispatching bu-reaus, the representatives of the serv-ices might

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