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Fire department presents Q3 data; regional dispatch center begins operations
Summary
Santa Barbara Fire Department reported 3,067 incidents in Q3, training and outreach totals, and described the newly operational regional fire communication center and forthcoming data dashboards.
Chris Mails, Fire Chief for the Santa Barbara City Fire Department, and Brian Fetterman, operations division chief, gave the commission the department’s quarter‑three incident and operations report at the Oct. 23 meeting.
Chief Mails said the quarter covered the department’s first full quarter operating with the new regional fire communication center (RFCC), which the department moved into June 3. He said the RFCC uses GPS and closest‑resource dispatching and that…
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