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New Way To Dispatch Fire Crews Gets Them There Faster


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Cincinnati Fire dispatchers are now sending crews to emergencies based on their actual real-time physical location instead of where their fire houses are located. This real-time GPS vehicle location dispatch has been used by other departments, including Toledo and Columbus, for years, but is new to Cincinnati, the first in Hamilton County to use it beginning this past January. According to Assistant Chief Anson Turley, "What's different now is we, in real-time, we know every fire apparatus is
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Focus On TechnologyBy Ann Thompson

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