DISPATCHED

By Kandee Ann Kahn

The City of Reno is enjoying their once a year classic car event called KOOL KLASSIC NIGHTS. Reno City Officials are unaware that there is a group of terrorists who have been looking forward KOOL KLASSIC NIGHTS. They have a plan that not only robs the City of Reno of millions for dollars, but puts every citizen at risk. Sergeant R

• Language: English
• Publisher: Gotham Books
• Release date: Jul 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9798887753645

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DISPATCHED CHARACTERS

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Rob Stevens Reno Major Crimes Detective Sergeant

Caryn Stevens Dispatcher/married to Rob

Sally Repp Rob’s ex-wife

Dennis Mayer Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms

Lee Farber Drug Enforcement Agency

Al Sheppard Federal Bureau of Investigation

Isaac Gant Hostage Negotiator

Roxanne Newton Dispatch Supervisor

Cassie Dispatcher

Marlena Dispatcher

Juliet Anderson Dispatcher/daughter of Joseph and Jill Anderson

Joseph Anderson Juliet’s dad

Jill Anderson Juliet’s mom

Zach Moore Juliet’s boyfriend/Gary’s brother

Gary Moore Zach’s brother

Glen Vander Reno Fire Department Battalion Chief

Ben Torres Reno Fire Department Battalion Chief

Jessie St. James Reno Fire Station 6 Captain

Anthony Williams Reno Chief of Police

Rafael Cruz Reno Watch Commander/

Lieutenant Traffic Division

Jack Wagner Reno Police Sergeant/Lieutenant

Sheri Wilkinson Reno Police Captain

Colin Lewis Reno Police Sergeant

Jerome Mills Reno Police Lieutenant/Sergeant

Judy Hoskins Reno SWAT Commander

Jeff Alrich Reno Police Officer

Russ Thompson Reno Police Officer

Wyatt Jackson Reno Police Officer

Sita/Mac MacDonald Reno Police Officer

Hannah Collins Reno Police Officer

Alisa Powell Reno Field Investigator Services Officer

Karlee Watkins Reno Field Investigator Services Officer

Victor Foster Reno City Manager

Christina Johnson Sparks Chief of Police

Vivian Morgan Sparks Watch Commander

Jodi Chase Sparks Major Crime Detective

Clark Zen Sparks Major Crime Detective

Janice Hoskins Sparks SWAT Commander

Jean Lyman Sparks SWAT Officer

Heath Adams Sparks SWAT Officer

Jodi Chase Sparks Detective

Clark Zen Sparks Detective

Jeff Marlow Pyramid Lake Tribal Police

Skylar Houston Placer County Sherriff’s Office Pilot

Kobi D’Angelo Placer County Sherriff’s Office Observer

Gerald Fields Health Department Coordinator, Washoe County Health Department

Bart Stirling Silver Slipper Casino Security Supervisor

Charlie VerMaas Platinum Club Casino Security

8

Tonight, was the night. They had planned it so nothing would go wrong. So why was she so nervous and scared? She looked around, she had been employed with the Reno Police Department communications center for 9 ½ months. She saw Caryn sitting at the phone console answering a 9-1-1 call. She observed Cassie, reading a book between dispatching calls to the deputies working graveyard shift for Washoe County Sheriff’s Office. Marlena was at the fire department console dispatching a medical emergency to Reno Engine 2. And she wasn’t too busy working the Reno Police Department console. No one was to be on any calls between the hours of 3:00 a.m. and 4:00 a.m. All dispatchers working the graveyard shift were cross-trained, meaning they could work any position in the dispatch center.

At 22 years old, Juliet Anderson felt she had led a sheltered life; being an only child and home-schooled her whole life. When Juliet turned 18, she moved out and she was going to have all the fun she missed, while she had been living with her parents in Truckee, California.

Juliet’s first job was answering phones for a busy attorney’s office. Juliet thought she would meet a handsome rich attorney. They would fall in love and he would spoil her rotten by buying her anything and everything, her little heart desired. Instead, Juliet worked long hours, and never got the attention, or recognition, she craved.

That is, until Zach Moore came along; they met one evening when she stopped at her favorite coffee shop. Zach swore to Juliet that it was love at first sight, when she asked for a mocha latte. She felt that he was everything she had been looking for. He was tall, very good-looking, had a sweet smile, and he adored her. The only problem was Zach did not have any money.

He and his older brother lived together. Gary scared Juliet. However, Zach explained he really was a nice guy, he just looked mad all the time. He told Juliet that Gary was concerned about their financial situation too.

Before Juliet met Zach, she had applied for a job as an emergency dispatcher with the City of Reno. Just a couple of weeks after they started dating, she got a letter in the mail saying she had been hired. Juliet was excited because she would be making more money.

Juliet attended the dispatch academy, held at the dispatch center. She was disappointed that it was in the basement of the fire station; however, she did like getting to look at all of the firemen. Juliet’s academy class had four other people in it and she didn’t like any of them. She knew she was better than they were; never the less, she still wasn’t getting the recognition she wanted and thought she deserved. After all, she was the prettiest and smartest person who had ever attended the academy. Zach always told her she was smart and pretty. Juliet liked the fact that she had weekends off. Zach always took her to dinner and a movie Saturday night. With him working six days a week, Sunday was the only day they had off together.

Juliet complained to him one day that she hated being in the basement of that building all day. She even started calling it the dungeon! Zach told her, if he had enough money, he would marry her and she would never have to work again.

Juliet would sigh, Oh Zach … I wish that would happen tomorrow.

Looking forlorn he would answer, Me too.

One day at work, Juliet and the other dispatchers all got sick. She was told later, that a firefighter had parked his diesel truck outside the air vent and had left his truck running while he ran inside. When Juliet called Zach later that afternoon, she told him what had happened. She never, in a million years, thought Zach would tell his brother about the air vent.

Gary Moore started to come up with the plan. He told Zach, who then told Juliet, that none of them would ever have to work again. Gary had the perfect plan! Gary, Zach, and Juliet just had to wait for the perfect time.

It took that long to plan for this day. It also took this week, out of the entire year, for just this moment. Reno’s biggest event of the year, ‘Kool Klassic Nights.’ Their plan was to rob the City of Reno for millions.

Juliet thought her boyfriend and his older brother, had things worked out to the minute. Didn’t they?

Chapter 1

The Dispatch Center was located in the basement of Reno Fire Department Station 1. It was a three-story building, not including the dispatch center in the basement. The third floor was where the firemen lived while on duty; they ate, slept, watched television, or just relaxed during their down time, between alarms. The firemen used the term alarms for their service calls; while dispatchers called them runs.

The offices of the Reno Fire Department staff were on the second floor. From the Fire Chief, Assistant Fire Chief, all the Battalion Chiefs in charge of specific areas of Reno, the Fire Marshal, Fire Investigators down to the Fire Prevention staff.

When entering the building, there was a long counter where visitors could get help with directions or fire prevention issues. Walking down a short hall, there were stairs, an elevator and the door leading to the apparatus room.

The apparatus floor was where the fire engines, the rescue squad, the ladder truck, the battalion chief’s car, the boat trailer and the reserve fire engines were parked when not being dispatched to a call.

The first thing everyone noticed when entering was a gold pole. The firemen would use the pole, when going out on alarms, because it was the fastest way to get from their living quarters to the apparatus floor.

In the basement, there was a door, that contained a window; it was used by the dispatchers to see who was at the door. A closed-circuit television camera was mounted to the wall so high, that a dispatcher could only see the top of a person’s head. There was also a speaker to the left of the door, with a buzzer for a visitor to use, making their presence known. On the door was a key pad; dispatchers could use it to enter the door