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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Newt Staff Writer Dispatching service from the Culpeper Sheriffs Department for local fire departments and rescue squads in Amissville, Castleton, Flint Hill and Washington will soon be discontinued, the Rappahannock supervisors learned at Monday's board meeting.
According to Paul Poling, the county’s representative on the planning district's Emergency Services (EMS) Council, an increase in number of emergency calls led to the decision to terminate as of July 1 the dispatch service currently supplied free to Rappahannock.
Gary Rosson, director of the EMS Council, said the increased workload on the dispatcher has interfered with efficiency. “I don’t think they’re going to be nasty,” he said, adding he expected the July 1 deadline would be extended “as long as the county is working on getting a dispatch system of its own.’’ He described the situation at both Culpeper and Fauquier’s overloaded centers as “a zoo” and maintained it would be in the county’s best interests to have its own dispatcher. If Culpeper received two emergency calls on cardiac arrests—one from Rappahannock and one from Culpeper, “you know which one is going to be handled first,” he said.
Poling estimated it will cost approximately $65,9% to set up a dispatch service here, including salary and benefits for four full-time and one part-time position, power connections, telephone line rental and radio equipment for both emergency services and police department.
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