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Roane County 9-1-1 director asks commission to clarify addressing authority to reduce duplicate addresses and response delays
Summary
9-1-1 director Brian Walker urged the commission to allow emergency-dispatch review of road names and addresses before they are finalized, citing duplicated street names, inconsistent records and examples that have delayed response.
Brian Walker, Roane County's 9-1-1 director, asked commissioners to consider giving the 9-1-1 office authority to review road names and address assignments before they are finalized so emergency responders and other agencies avoid duplicate addresses and response confusion.
"We want the authority to say, hold on. Let's do it the way the state wants it done," Walker told the commission, adding that the 9-1-1 center does not seek to take over naming or to unilaterally change existing addresses. He said the office's goal is to reduce duplicate names and ambiguous…
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