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Philip Covarrubias Covarrubias 1Fire 100-30 Friday 1300-155012-06-2013 communication theory CenterMy name is Philip Covarrubias, and Im going to be talking about the communication theory center. The Communications center, a facility where dispatchers work, is the place where most emergency agencies receive 9-1-1 calls for emergency assistance, such as the fire departments, police departments, and EMS agencies. There are many communications centers throughout the United States and in other countries. In the United States, they are divided by counties. Depending on how large the county is, it depart determine how many facilities will be running. In every communications center dispatchers work with a computer system called computer-aided dispatch (or CAD for short). Dispatchers started working with these computers in the early 1970s, and as they became more known, agencies began adoptin g theses computers. The function of the CAD system, using the enhanced 9-1-1 system, is to quickly find the lo...