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By Nicholas M. Horrock
and Mary Ann Kuhn
Rappahannock News Staff Writers
Rappahannock County fire department officials say that the Sheriff’s Office dispatchers delay getting emergency calls out, make mistakes in locations and are not sufficiently trained in fire and rescue dispatching.
They said the dispatchers, who are deputy sheriffs, are overworked and sometimes distracted by other duties.
Concerned about delays in a rural county where distances and time count in saving lives, the Amissville Volunteer Fire & Rescue Company sent two written complaints to Sheriff Larry . Sherertz detailing three incidents in the past two months:
• On Nov. 6, it took 15 minutes to get an ambulance to a citizen suffering chest pains even though he lived less than a mile from the station. The delay was traced to the dispatchers.
• On Nov. 10, it took a dispatcher four minutes to send out a fire alarm.
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