A Tucson, Arizona man wants action taken against a Pima County 911 dispatcher who laughed when he told her his car and girlfriend were on fire.
Lalo Delgado’s car caught on fire during a freak accident on the way to Chiva Falls, Breitbart.com reports.
Delgado told KGUN9-TV he was “shocked” when he called 911 to report the fire, and the dispatcher giggled.
“Her initial reaction was laugh and giggle in the background,” said Delgado. “It was very disturbing.”
Video auto-plays after the break.
Here’s the transcript of the call:
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911: 911 what is your emergency?
Caller: My car just kinda caught on fire, my girlfriend caught on fire.
911: Is your girlfriend still on fire?
Caller: No.
911: No? (laughter in background)
911: Ok. (chuckles) Umm… Is your vehicle still on fire?
Caller:It’s hilarious huh?
911: Sir, is your vehicle still on fire?
Caller: I just heard you smirk… Inaudible.
911: Ok, sir it wasn’t regarding that ok.
Caller: Yeah, I just heard you laugh.
Delgado called back after extinguishing the fire himself.
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911: 911, what is your emergency?
Caller: Yeah.
911: Hello?
Caller: Yeah I called in a few minutes ago and I just wanted to make sure you took me seriously.
The dispatcher is still on the job and receiving calls, pending the outcome of the investigation.
Lalo’s girlfriend reportedly has a long road to recovery.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department said action would be taken against the 911 dispatcher who was still taking 911 calls on Tuesday.
“We did not perform as I expect or the citizens of this county expect us to,” said Capt. Jim Berry. “We’re going to correct that. Certainly I can understand why he was upset. I would be too.” He added that an investigation is underway to determine “what the laughter was about.”
Lalo’s girlfriend reportedly has a long road to recovery. Listen to the call below.
I saw this on the Today show this morning. That dispatcher needs to be fired. He is about to get paid
What the heck!!!! Has he been fired yet?
This is what happens when unqualified folks get in positions they’re not cut out for. The dispatcher needs to be fired and then she can laugh her a$$ off while waiting eight to ten weeks for an unemployment payment!!!
She knows what she signed up for her azz needs to get fired.
Yeah…she needs to be turned loose from that job.
Give her a clown suit. She can laugh all day in that.
If laughing was goin on in the background, he prolly wasn’t laughing at the caller’s situation but something going on in the call center.
While I do NOT agree with laughter it’s funny to me how some things are catapulted into MANUFACTURED crisis mode and other things like uh I don’t know black men being picked up by the cops and end up never being seen again never make the mainstream news. Thank you for reporting all the stories SR this is not a dig at you.
I feel bad for his girlfriend. What kind of freak accident happened? Or dud he set her on fire.
what would he be able to sue for? what are his damages?
so….these oatmeal cookies were good. chewy and soft
She was laughing at something in the background, the background laughter is louder… But regardless… Bish I’m calling u at 911 y’all need to be serious 24/7/365 and 366 if its a leap year
It sounded like to me she was laughing at something funny that was said in the background. Could it have been handled better
But if somebody walked up on anyone of us mid-read on SR comments *gasp*. THE HORROR
#Kyle barker voice
Where is the empathy?
so yall really think his character was supposed to be all the way straight?
i could never figure him out.
so….these oatmeal cookies were good. chewy and soft
Anytime I come back to Atl I must have some
by cougar lover on Oct 2, 2013 at 12:05 pm
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I love chewy cookies. My favorite is Publix bakery sugar cookies
so yall really think his character was supposed to be all the way straight?
i could never figure him out
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Chile Kyle was fruitier than a musty dope boy tranny on 3rd street. :stop:
But damn it, I was not going to let my poor, retarded dog feel like she failed.
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I think she was laughing at something going on in the back ground.. She should also know that she would be held accountable for this. She should be punished/let go b/c of the severity of the job. Take the junk to the break room and cackle in there.
MisT
right! chewy cookies makes it easier to savor them.
so yall really think his character was supposed to be all the way straight?
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I think he was just very metrosexual
Chile Kyle was fruitier than a musty dope boy tranny on 3rd street.

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This definitely could’ve been handled better. Hopefully this learning experience won’t cost the operator too handsomely.
Her voice gets louder when she says, “Is you girlfriend STILL on fire?” They were obviously laughing at him. This probably isn’t the first time they entertain themselves by laughing at callers.
I drank some French vanilla coffee and that ish was so dang bitter..
I think he was just very metrosexual
by Brownskin Cutie (Carrington’s E-boo) on Oct 2, 2013 at 12:12 pm
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I bet you think Kerry Rhodes and Hollywood are just good friends too huh?
so why was kyle living with overton? kyle stayed flossing like he had money with his tiny hats and shyt. and why was overton’s name overton?
I’m sure that some of the callers are quite funny, like the call when the lady tried to tell that her pusher man sold her some bad stuff. Still, she should not have been heard laughing… push that magic little button called mute.
FuturedocDonte says:
She was laughing at something in the background, the background laughter is louder…
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The laughing clearly starts after she asks: “Is your girlfriend still on fire?” She actually raised her voice so the others could hear her.
I saw kyle barker in a movie where he was gay. Love scene and all… He liked max becuz she was masculine acting.
Shug that was his last name.
people are getting too lax on these jobs as if they are irreplaceable. i’m sure it doesn’t take much to answer calls and dispatch police.
Shug this ain’t no Living Single inside the actor’s studio session but I will entertain because I got nothing else on the above:

I think Overton was a mark for Kyle. He thought he was dumb and thought he could influence him to toot that booty over. And he would’ve had him too if it wasn’t for
. Those pesky kidsSinclairThere is no laughter until she asks that question. Then she laughed and said, “okay.” She was clearly laughing at him.
Clearly SR has analyzed this call much more expeditiously than I. I shall defer to her for accuracy
Y’all remember that episode when the wife beater terrance howard was dating Max?
Milky says:
I saw kyle barker in a movie where he was gay. Love scene and all… He liked max becuz she was masculine acting.
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orly? whats the name of it? i wanna see too.
i thought the same thing about his relationship with Max.
so Razz what was overtown’s first name then? and did u figure out if your dog was retarded? can he get a check??
push that magic little button called mute.
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Remember when he died on Final Destination…
@Sandra they laughed in the background before she said ok.
OTB save me from a day of monotony
*hand to forehead in despair*.
me thinks Razzle is the 911 operator.
who says “remember when he died”….and then starts cracking up?
Razzle, thats who.
OTB- don’t act like you’ve never put someone on mute when you see something funny in the back ground.
In this situation she should always keep her bearings, but with me…shewww. when my CC starts cussing about something and someone is talking I press it 
@Sandra they laughed in the background before she said ok.
you what :spark: she heard 
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So you saying she need to turn up her hearing device
She told
Razz you are like me huh? You feel the need to explain sometimes instead of just letting that
or whatever emote be what it is. We anal and GOT To clear up any possible confusion. I am working in it 
Did the food stamp people get furloughed? My cabinets are getting bare, my connect hasn’t called me, and i am getting worried.
@MissusTee Im dying down here.
OTB9turning10 today so thats my excuse.
#leavingearly
@Razzie, those were my agreement eyes. I’m leaning on the mute button all day here…minimizing screens..slamming drawers. Chit.. it is hard work looking like you working hard.
Taken,
SOmetimes
We anal and GOT To clear up any possible confusion. I am working in it
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Did the food stamp people get furloughed? My cabinets are getting bare, my connect hasn’t called me, and i am getting worried.
Coug muscles fading from lack of nutrition
by cougar lover on Oct 2, 2013 at 12:30 pm
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*martin from the Simpsons laugh*.
Another possible answer:
*ben stein voice*
oh the agony. How will you buy Tampico??
Did the food stamp people get furloughed? My cabinets are getting bare, my connect hasn’t called me, and i am getting worried
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No…cuts to the amounts, but they’re still coming. You might not be able to get as much as you used to tho. I think it was something like minus 15-30 dollars a fam/person.
I do it all the time I be
(Kevin hart voice) No no no that wasn’t what I meant …
I had to start being like refresh xs2 or stop caring to inform.
MisTaken
The Black Mamba says:
*martin from the Simpsons laugh*.
Coug muscles fading from lack of nutrition
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you laughing, while i have to cut open a jar of peanut butter last night, to scrape out the of it in that hard to reach bottom corner.
Turn up MrsTee. Turn up. <–healthy choice steamers

WASTED!!!
by OutsidetheBox on Oct 2, 2013 at 12:34 pm
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Pouring my shake in my mouth
* the last of it
i need to stop laughing at my own post before i hit submit. don’t even be proofreading from laughing at myself.
you laughing, while i have to cut open a jar of peanut butter last night, to scrape out the of it in that hard to reach bottom corner.
by cougar lover on Oct 2, 2013 at 12:35 pm
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*excuse me while I hide my ugly laugh cry face from the masses*. :crying1:
*Der from what’s happening voice*
Why don’t you just call one of your old lady friends up and get some groceries? You know they like to eat
Been looking for KeKe from the Pork n’ Beans projects WIC song all morning.
Fugg that song called yall? Yall heard it on Rickey Smiley??
*Dee from what’s happening
course Coug 
We all need a
i need to stop laughing at my own post before i hit submit. don’t even be proofreading from laughing at myself
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Dee from what’s happening
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OMG!!!! OTB I heard it. When she said pork and beans I died. She was flowing tho! That beat was
Eat junk food for whattttt T U H
Tombout the WIC check five hunnid. :crying1: I was WEAK in traffic this AM.
Hey Roses :wave:
Did yall see Steve Harvey’s wife at Fashion Week
She attached some Easter ruffled sleeves on a Snufflupagus dress
I gave her a pass at Think Like A Man premiere but Steve has a female line
#sesamestreet
I dont think she know Steve Harvey aint no damn preacher. She is First Lady Couture all the way!!!
Miami’s 991 center is pretty shiddy too.
While PCSing to Key West, I was coming back from FLL from picking up my mom and baby sister up. We rolling down the highway entering the city and all of a sudden I hear swerving noises. I try to move over to the far right b/c I couldn’t see where it was from and boom this pretty white charger smashed into me. She totaled her car. She was texting and driving and lost control. I thnk the bish was taking a selfie too… She was pretty. When I pulled over, silly me, I called 911 instead of pressing my onstar button, and the operator was rude. She asked me where I was and I didn’t know b/c there were no signs where I was. So I pressed OnStar and asked my stepdad to talk to them to et a location. “Why would you call onstar when you’re on the phone with 991 (yes she said 991) ma’am? that’s stupid. I went off on her and my stepdad that night. (he was being an azzhole that whole trip.)
I can’t hear the recording, but could he have been laughing at something with a fellow dispatcher? If that’s the case, sure it was super insensitive, but I don’t know if he needs to lose his job over it. The publicity and having this incident noted in his personnell file is pretty good punishment.
KayCeiSoul
I don’t know what set you off yesterday, but I read a couple of stories about Nessa’s pregnancy and people are REALLY going in on her. I’m really disappointed that people are behaving this way and I pray she’s not reading it. It really makes me consider stepping back from blogs. The poison that is spewed can become a part of you in real life and I don’t want that. I’m already to the point where I have to watch how I speak because sometimes my Sandrarose talk slips out in real life at inappropriate times. To anyone here that may have given Nessa the riot act for having the nerve to have a baby out of wedlock I hope my comment doesn’t offend. It’s just my opinion.
Speaking of Rickey …. I just went in the website and saw the DJs. I never expected them to look like that
MisTaken
The Black Mamba says:
Why don’t you just call one of your old lady friends up and get some groceries? You know they like to eat
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nah they stingy
if they seen a nicca sleeping at the bus stop, them chicks would stop to take a pic to make a meme for instagram. talmbout some made it to the middle now he here!
I’m already to the point where I have to watch how I speak because sometimes my Sandrarose talk slips out in real life at inappropriate times.
I think sometimes since it’s a blog it’s real easy to
but you have to manage your replies in order to not get PIST sometimes. But yes people will try it!
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Aside from being overtly silly I am who am in here as I am outside of here/in the workplace. In real life I don’t let things that don’t affect my family, God, health or check affect me. Or I try REALLY hard not to.
Coug

Sorry
You guys are a mess!!! That Living Single comment about Overton was a mark for Kyle had me on the floor at work.
Regarding the 911 call, where was the Supervisor? If everyone was laughing it didnt catch the Sup’s attention?
Bird says:
I can’t hear the recording, but could he have been laughing at something with a fellow dispatcher?
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The dispatcher is a female. There is no laughter in the background until she raises her voice to say the caller’s girlfriend was on fire. She knew the other dispatchers could hear her.
talmbout some made it to the middle now he here!

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Milky says:
So yall sayin even the dogs gay now?
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I missed this
you’ve never seen a pet trying to mate with another of the same sex?
It’s actually normal. I’ve seen bunnies do it even. The bottom usually rejects and kicks him with his leg lol
Po’ Couga.
yep they cold and i aint even cheat on ’em that murch!
@shuga the name of the movie with kyle is Relax… Its just sex
Did the food stamp people get furloughed? My cabinets are getting bare, my connect hasn’t called me, and i am getting worried.
I pay for mine before they come on. Got the cards on my person. 
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@shuga the name of the movie with kyle is Relax… Its just sex
his taco meat chest
by Milky on Oct 2, 2013 at 1:17 pm
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I don’t wanna see it
And seriously… If my girlfriend was on fire on just on fire ima be calling like ”
hurry the hell up hurry up my girlfriend on fire
not like
“
” uh my car and my girlfriend on fire
I pay for mine before they come on. Got the cards on my person.

by Apparition on Oct 2, 2013 at 1:19 pm
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App at the checkout register with steaks, shrimp, asparagus and sargento soft cheeses
The cashier after he swipes his card.
Did the gubment really shut down the food stamps, if so what are those folk spose to do?
Donte yea I was wondering why he was more concerned about the girl laughing and trying to call her out instead of hollering at her to send some folks.
whats NOT To laugh it, It keeps the blogs\media GOING
#justKiddinDAMMIT doNT come for me log in!!!
fyi* i haveNOTreadtheSTORY
@ Taken, you have no sense!!!
I know Hollywood and Kerry Rhodes are an item.
Why this video gets starting?
shut it off Sandra
MisTaken
The Black Mamba says:
I pay for mine before they come on. Got the cards on my person.
<-THIS!! the tiMes iVe used someones card.
by Apparition on Oct 2, 2013 at 1:19 pm
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App at the checkout register with steaks, shrimp, asparagus and sargento soft cheeses
The cashier after he swipes his card.
Those Cashiers Being giving the STANKface
so then we dont have to pay taxes this week then, right?
” uh my car and my girlfriend on fire “
by FuturedocDonte on Oct 2, 2013 at 1:20 pm
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He was real lax about it. I was like dang it must be a baby fire or something the way he sounds. Spit on her and put the fire out
But then again maybe that was his calm under pressure voice
I can’t take this!!!! djadgjha;sodgjpoajdgoisdahfoi’sajdgfkahsdfijkhasjdl;fjasdoifhasfjqa;odfhsadjfoisdagfasjdfoasdhjf;oiasdjp;asdjf’ejfasdjfisadjf;ajdfhioj
just turn your speakers off diva.
Due to the pending budget caused by the shutdown. I am on Kanye Status; College Dropout.
I was trying to postpone my classes until mid December b/c of our move once they turn the government back on, but they said I can’t be on inactive status for more than 45 days. *snaps fanguhs*
We will see what these fools do. Hurry up with the budget/my TA trick azz marks!
@Shuga you just got all the answers don’t cha?
” uh my car and my girlfriend on fire “
by FuturedocDonte on Oct 2, 2013 at 1:20 pm
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He was real lax about it. I was like dang it must be a baby fire or something the way he sounds. Spit on her and put the fire out
But then again maybe that was his calm under pressure voice
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He said his car was on fire first like that was more important
Them good cheeses add up quick dinnermug. I NEED my smoked gouda for my mashed potatoes.
:wave: Hello Donte
KayCeiSoul
I don’t know what set you off yesterday, but I read a couple of stories about Nessa’s pregnancy and people are REALLY going in on her. I’m really disappointed that people are behaving this way and I pray she’s not reading it. It really makes me consider stepping back from blogs. The poison that is spewed can become a part of you in real life and I don’t want that. I’m already to the point where I have to watch how I speak because sometimes my Sandrarose talk slips out in real life at inappropriate times. To anyone here that may have given Nessa the riot act for having the nerve to have a baby out of wedlock I hope my comment doesn’t offend. It’s just my opinion.
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Bird, you encouraged me and I will encourage you today Sis. Brush it off of your shoulder. Because if what people on this and other blogs said was taken seriously, we’d all be in trouble.
I had a child after 30. I am a blessing to him, and he is such a blessing to me. Any thought process that is otherwise is a joke in my world. Live my life and have the happiness I have when I go home, and THEN tell me I’m selfish or that my child is going to have to bury me early. That is such a mean, and hurtful untruth to spew. THAT is selfish.
WTF is early? Parents…scratch that…PEOPLE leave this earth daily. I don’t want to ever bury my child before me NO WAY and I’d hope that I’d raise my child to be self sufficient so that at any age of adulthood, when I give up the ghost they’ll have avoided spending their hey-deys caring for me when I can’t care for myself. Now that is VERY UNSELFISH.
If we did things according to the way the world is going, there would be NO reproduction at all.
As for her not being married, it happens, only God can judge it, babies are blessings and they can’t get here without the will of God. The sin is in the ACT…NOT in child.
You ain’t goin’ NOWHERE Bird! Just take a breather like I did…need to see your font.
Them good cheeses add up quick dinnermug. I NEED my smoked gouda for my mashed potatoes.


by Apparition on Oct 2, 2013 at 1:31 pm
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HAVARTI OVER CHEA.
OMG so here I am typing a response to Shuga’s tax font and all I hear outside my office is someone shouting at another person at the top of his lungs and cursing at them. We thought someone SNAPPED! I’m like
awe FAWK! Hide under your desks! But it was just our resident Gunny Sgt correcting someone
My sup went out to go see right after it got silent. Just from that statement y’all should already know what he is.
I stayed at my desk like
He came back and said that someone in training called the Gunny “man” as in “aye man…”
that’s why he went off..
Not going to be so funny when HR calls her in the office and says, “you’re FIREd”.