A 911 call taker was put on leave after taking down the wrong address for a call.
Christopher Geldart, the deputy mayor for public safety and justice, said the woman in Southeast Washington had suffered from multiple health problems and was pronounced dead at the residence.Efforts on Wednesday to reach relatives for the 56-year-old woman were not successful.
Kelly Brown, the chief of staff for the Office of Unified Communications, said in a statement that the employee who took the emergency call sent the dispatcher an address number of 122 in Southeast along the Capitol Riverfront.Brown said the call should have been dispatched to an address number of 1222 on the same street, nearly one mile away in the Potomac Gardens area.
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