Council pushes for unified 911 dispatch centers [Video]

There’s a new push to solve Kansas City’s problem of long wait times for 911 callers.On Tuesday, the city council’s Finance, Governance and Public Safety Committee unanimously passed a resolution directing City Manager Brian Platt to develop a plan to unify the police and fire departments’ 911 dispatch centers.Platt will then present the plan to the Board of Police Commissioners for a response.The most recent numbers from the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) show that the average wait time for a 911 caller in August was 33 seconds. The longest wait time recorded was one hour, 47 minutes and 56 seconds.Wells Brown spent the first 24 days of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). His mother, Devin, said it didn’t have to be that way.As KMBC first reported on Sept. 9, both Devin and Wells’ lives were in danger on the day of his birth.“In that time, we …