Paulding County E-9-1-1 Communications Center

09/06/2026

Behind the Headset 🎧 | Get to Know Your Dispatcher

You hear our voices on the phone, but there’s a whole person behind that headset. 👀

For our Behind the Headset series, we’re letting you get to know the people who answer the call, ask the questions, send the help, and somehow keep it together when the rest of us are having a full-blown Tuesday. 😂

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be introducing members of our Paulding 911 team and sharing the stories, personalities, and people behind the voices you hear when you call 911.

Because dispatchers aren’t just voices on the other end of the phone.
We’re people. We’re neighbors. We’re part of your community. ❤️

🎧 Meet the person behind the headset.

09/05/2026

Real estate agents aren't the only people who care about location. 😉

If you're calling 911, location is one of the most important things you can give us.

If the emergency is occurring somewhere other than where you are, tell us:
📍 Where they are
🏠 Their address, if known
📱 Their phone number
🚗 What they're driving / where they may be headed
👤 Who is with them

Location matters. A lot.

09/05/2026

Behind the Headset 🎧 | Get to Know Your Dispatcher

You hear our voices on the phone, but there’s a whole person behind that headset. 👀

For our Behind the Headset series, we’re letting you get to know the people who answer the call, ask the questions, send the help, and somehow keep it together when the rest of us are having a full-blown Tuesday. 😂

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be introducing members of our Paulding 911 team and sharing the stories, personalities, and people behind the voices you hear when you call 911.

Because dispatchers aren’t just voices on the other end of the phone.
We’re people. We’re neighbors. We’re part of your community. ❤️
🎧 Meet the person behind the headset.

09/04/2026

𝟗-𝟏-𝟏 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐖𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐜𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐋𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐯𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐚

A frightening plane crash in Paulding County, Georgia, quickly became a coordinated search-and-rescue operation after someone aboard the aircraft was able to call 9-1-1 from the wreckage.

A small plane carrying an 18-year-old flight student and his 22-year-old instructor crashed Thursday night in a wooded area near the Paulding Northwest Atlanta Airport.

Despite the crash, someone aboard the aircraft was able to make a critical 9-1-1 call and provide dispatchers with a general location of the wreckage.

That information helped guide the emergency response.

Deputies and firefighters searched the wooded area and located the aircraft approximately a quarter-mile into the woods. About 10 Paulding County Fire Department units responded to the incident, and rescuers found both occupants alive.

Emergency crews removed the two men from the wreckage and transported them to hospitals in critical condition.

This incident demonstrates why communication can be just as important as physical rescue during an emergency. When an exact address isn't available, as can happen in wooded areas, on trails, waterways, or after an aircraft accident, every piece of information a caller can provide may help emergency personnel narrow the search and get resources moving in the right direction.

For emergency telecommunicators, calls like these require listening carefully, gathering the most useful information possible, and communicating those details to responders who may be searching in difficult terrain and under time-sensitive circumstances.

It is also an important reminder for the public: when calling 9-1-1, stay as calm as you can and provide as much location information as possible. Nearby roads, landmarks, buildings, trail markers, or anything else you can identify may help responders find you.

𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: https://www.cbsnews.com/atlanta/news/small-plane-crashes-near-paulding-county-airport-leaving-flight-student-and-instructor-critically-injured/

09/04/2026

❤ NOW HIRING: Part-Time Custodian (a.k.a. Jedi of the Janitorial Arts)

Are you a wizard with a mop? Do you believe no mess is too mighty, no stain too stubborn? Do you enjoy the therapeutic art of sweeping while judging people’s choice in snacks by what’s on the floor?

We’re looking for a part-time custodian to join our team of behind-the-scenes heroes.

Apply HERE ➡ https://www.paulding.gov/Jobs.aspx?UniqueId=83&From=All&CommunityJobs=False&JobID=PartTime-Building-Service-Worker-482

Your duties will include (but are not limited to):
• Wrestling rogue dust bunnies
• Keeping our bathrooms cleaner than a dentist’s conscience
• Replacing toilet paper with the precision of a bomb technician
• Looking slightly annoyed when people track in mud five minutes after you mop

Requirements:
• Ability to lift things, push things, and laugh at bad jokes (mostly ours)
• Tolerance for mysterious fridge smells
• Night owl energy or early bird pep – we’ve got shifts to match

Perks:
• Free access to cleaning supplies (don’t get too excited)
• The admiration of coworkers who can’t function without a clean space
• Occasional applause when the trash cans magically empty themselves (because of you)

Sound like your kind of gig? Apply now – your mop throne awaits!

09/04/2026

You don't have to have the perfect thing to say.
You don't have to know how to fix everything.
You just have to be willing to stay.

If someone tells you they're thinking about su***de, take them seriously. Listen. Stay with them. Help them connect with support.

And if you believe they're in immediate danger, call 911.

Sometimes being the person who stays can make all the difference. 💛

09/04/2026

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09/04/2026

Thursday (9.3.2026)

We are on scene of a single engine plane crash in the western part of Paulding County. Two occupants were on board and on their way to area hospitals.

We are on scene gathering more information. Media staging is Poole Elementary School on Wayside Lane.

09/04/2026

📣📣📣📣PAULDING SHERIFF: **AVOID** Avoid Hulseytown Road just south of Hwy 278 for 1-2 hours for an incident. 📣📣📣📣

**AVOID** Avoid Hulseytown Road just south of Hwy 278 for 1-2 hours for an incident. 

09/03/2026

Update: Per DCSO, subject is in custody as of 4:00pm.

🚨BOLO OUT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY REGARDING AN ESCAPED INMATE 🚨

📍Douglas County Georgia - SPECIAL ATTENTION H92S AREA

At approximately 9:30 a.m. today, inmate trustee Isaac Kindle left the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office Car Wash, where he was assigned, in a sedan driven by a female (please note: the vehicle has been recovered as well as the female, however he was not in that vehicle.)