Stan Hendrix retires after years of answering the call

At 3 a.m., a call came into the Cameron 911 dispatch center. On the other end of the line, a woman was screaming. Stan Hendrix initially thought he might be hearing a domestic disturbance or bad car crash. Then he listened more closely.

“I answer 911, ‘Where is your emergency?’ And the caller doesn’t answer” Hendrix recalled. His map showed the caller near the 53-mile marker on Interstate 35. Two patrol officers were dispatched and enroute when Hendrix heard the words that changed the call: “Push, push, push.” “I tell the officers, ‘We’re having a baby at the 53-mile marker,’” he said.