Job title: Training and accreditation supervisor for the Emergency Communications Center. Wade trains the folks who handle all of our emergencies, and keeps our area on the cutting edge.
Worked for the county for: 24 years
Resides in: Fluvanna County
Best of times: Receiving national accreditation. “I spent two-and-a-half years working to have our department meet national standards. It’s good to know we don’t only talk the talk, we walk the walk.”
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Debbie Wade |
Worst of times: Unsuccessful training, which takes up to a year. “It’s hard to be spending months and months with someone, spending a lot of our energy and their energy and time, and not have them succeed. There are no indicators—we’ve had people with high school diplomas, bachelor’s degrees, even master’s come in here and not make it.”
Strangest moment on the job: Man who called during a blizzard who said he was trapped and needed some pot. “He said that he needed it for a prescription for pain management. When I told him we couldn’t do that, he asked, ‘Don’t you have some in the evidence room?’”
If she were any superhero, she’d be: A super-duper accreditation supervisor to improve the national emergency response system. “We’ve got it pretty great around here, but I would like to help the whole country.”
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