GLENS FALLS -- Warren County emergency dispatchers and Glens Falls Police officers were praised Friday for their handling of an apparent suicide attempt by a man who opened a gas line in his home and threatened to harm himself.

The incident unfolded Feb. 7 at a home on McDonald Street in Glens Falls.

Warren County Sheriff Bud York said dispatchers received a call that afternoon from a man who was threatening to harm himself.

He was calling from a cellphone, and the dispatchers could not initially determine who owned the phone or where he was.

York said dispatcher Scott Combs kept the man on the line, while dispatchers Butch LaGoy, Brian Engle and Linda Ellis worked to try to locate the phone through phone carriers.

They got several possible locations, and were eventually able to track it to an area off Dix Avenue. But the triangulation software could not place it in a specific home, so Glens Falls Police officers had to knock on doors.