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Pen and paper deployed as emergency system crashes

A system outage forced Victorian emergency call takers to resort to backup measures on Wednesday. (James Ross/AAP)

Victorian triple zero call-takers were forced to use pen and paper to dispatch emergency services for almost two hours after […]

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