The sounds of a crying child never sounded so good to John Girton
as they did on Feb. 16, 2010.
During his shift as an emergency
call taker at the Glynn-Brunswick
911 Communications Center that
day, he received a call from a woman who told him she had...
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The sounds of a crying child never sounded so good to John Girton
as they did on Feb. 16, 2010.
During his shift as an emergency
call taker at the Glynn-Brunswick
911 Communications Center that
day, he received a call from a woman who told him she had drowned
her children. After an extended
pause in the conversation, the woman told Girton she had shot herself.
Girton immediately began the
process as soon as the call came
in to send police, emergency medical personnel and a helicopter to
the scene by coordinating with the
dispatchers in the communications
center.
His job was not to be fazed by the
enormous weight of the situation.
It was instead to remain calm and
ensure all the proper agencies were
notified, something he learned later that
likely contributed to saving the youngest of
the woman’s two children.
Although the woman and one of her children died, hearing the cries of the 2-year-old
overthepoliceradiolaterthatdayconfirmed
for Girton just how important his
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