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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
"Rappahannock is apparently going to have to bite the bullet," announced supervisor E. P. Luke on Monday, indicating that the county may have to provide its own dispatch service for the sheriffs department as well as for fire and rescue units.
The supervisors learned last month that the free dispatch from the Culpeper Sheriffs Department for the county’s emergency services in Washington, Amissville, Flint Hill and Castleton would be discontinued as of July 1. Luke met recently with Culpeper’s planner and the county administrator in an attempt to avoid the cut off.
Instead of coming away with an agreement to continue dispatching for fire and rescue, the supervisions chairmen learned that Culpeper sheriff Robert Peters will also be asked to terminate as of July 1 the free dispatch service provided to the Rappahannock Sheriffs Department. ot the Culpeper board of supervisors. “Our problem is with a group that’s not a government entity (Culpeper’s fire and rescue squads) causing us a lot of heartache by requiring that we spend lots of money for our own dispatch service,” he explained.
Supervisor H. B. Wood asked if the county couldn’t hook into the fire service’s dispatch network rather than spending $65,000 for its own.
Unfamiliar With County
Paul Poling, the county’s representative on the Rappahannock-planning district’s emergency services council, replied that forest wardens are dispatched from Charlottesville. Other localities are trying to get away from that type of situation, he said, citing Culpeper and Warrenton’s efforts to have a dispatch service run by someone familiar with the area served. Time lost in reaching a location inadquately identifies can mean life or death r
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