A Md. 911 operator is off the air after telling a distraught teen reporting a fatal car crash to 'stop whining.'
The girl called 911 after her father and soon-to-be stepmother were struck by a vehicle while changing a tire on the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
Her father was killed, and his fiance was seriously injured.
Here's an excerpt of the conversation obtained by WRC:
"OK, let's stop whining. OK, let's stop whining. It's hard to understand you... two people were struck, correct?" the operator said.
When the teen describes that her father and his fiancee are motionless and lying on the ground, the operator asks to talk to someone else.
"Is there someone else there I can talk to, because it's so hard..."
The teen then explains the only other conscious person is her young brother.
Russ Davis, a spokesman with the Anne Arundel County Fire Department, told the media the dispatcher used a poor choice of words.
On Wednesday, he told local reporters the dispatcher has been assigned duties where he will not interact with the public.
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/911-Operator-in-Fatal-Crash-Stop-Whining-Rick-Warrick-BW-Parkway-290707301.html
