Transcript of social worker’s first call to 911 before the explosion (this is the male dispatcher in the article who regrets his handling of it):
That social worker was in an impossible situation. Its easy to say that she simply should have never brought those boys to that nut’s house. You would like to think there were some options. Sadly she probably was following strict protocols.
Thank you for that link. Wow he didn’t think it was a issue at all from that transcript.
This transcript reads like the script to a comedy movie.....( except that is was real and the outcome so horrific.)
Geeze! Who cares whether the dad was white, black or Asian? Get someone over there.
Ohhh. That poor woman. She told him she smelled gasoline. He just kept trying to spell Powell. "Two L's on the end?" What a jackhole.
The social worker didn’t do a good job at all of conveying the urgency of the situation. Probably she couldn’t consciously accept what was going to happen though her subconscious recognized it.
If only she could have cut to the chase “The house is reeking of gasoline and I think he’s going to burn them up. Send police and fire right away.”
It’s really astonishing that he didn’t kill her as well - that she didn’t bear his revenge against the system that was “persecuting” him.
Which begs the question how many others have they messed up?