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To the editor:
As a voting member of the Rappahannock County Fire and Rescue Association I would like first to thank the members of the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors for the continued support that they have given the Volunteer Fire and Rescue Association in their recent request in the county’s budget.
As for the “911 Emergency” number, I do believe there will be a continued effort on the parts of both the Fire and Rescue Association and the Sheriffs Department to put this into service.
As to the remark that attacked the credibility of the county’s dispatchers quoted from the Rappahannock News: “I disagree with the qualifications for a dispatcher,” Mr. Lane repeated. “It seems like anyone with experience with a CB radio and a good education could handle it.” The credibility of the Sheriffs office dispatchers is very much respected by every member of all the volunteer fire and rescue companies in Rappahannock County and the surrounding counties.
The life or property of every person who contacts the Sheriffs office is in the hands of the dispatcher from the time that person who hangs up the phone until the time the emergency personnel (be it fire and rescue or deputies from the Sheriffs Department) get to that location. In the past I can recall times when the dispatchers have had to handle some pretty tough circumstances.
Perhaps they’re handling a nuyor structure fire in Sperryville involving two or three county companies and one Culpeper County company at 11:30 p.m. Then at 1:15 a.m. (about two hours later) while everyone is still working that major structure fire in Sperryville, several sets of tones are set for yet another major structure fire — this one on the opposite end of the county in
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