Between 6,000 and 8,000 people in the city of Galveston had died, and estimated casualties for the entire island ranged from 10,000 to 12,000. Property damage is impossible to estimate by current standards, but contemporary figures ranged from twenty to thirty million dollars.
A job posting for a public safety dispatcher in in Lake Havasu City, AZ, revealed an annual salary of $34,008 for trainees and an annual salary range of $37,398 and $52,374 for dispatchers with at least one year of experience.
Originally, a new fire station would be built; since then, a new 911 dispatch center has been added to the project. By the time the whole complex is done and outfitted, the final cost will be $9.4 million. It will include everything, even a new dispatch system for the 911 center that is due for replacement, King said.