This week is National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, a time to celebrate and appreciate those on the other end when you dial 9-1-1. 

On the WHOW Morning Show Wednesday, DeWitt County CENCOM Coordinator Karen Clevenger told the Hart Media Group that she and local first responders have been celebrating the County's dispatchers this week. 

Emergency Dispatchers are often considered the unseen heroes of emergency response, and Clevenger says their job has changed a lot in recent years. While it may seem like a dispatcher's job is just to ask questions and follow a script, they are gathering crucial information that could mean life or death. 

Clevenger is asking anyone with a dispatcher or other form of public safety telecommunicator in their life to thank them and celebrate them this week for all the work they do in keeping the community safe.