GP Communications Center Handled 1,260 Emergency Calls in Last Week of July
The Grants Pass 9-1-1 Communications Center handled 1,260 emergency calls this past week, which was busy for both dispatchers and partner agencies.
As usual, the bulk of the calls between July 25th and July 31st were for the Grants Pass Police Department with 963. GPPD was followed by 299 calls for American Medical Response and 96 calls for Grants Pass Fire & Rescue.
Rural Metro Fire Department received a total of 57 calls, followed by the Illinois Valley Fire District with 35, Oregon Department of Forestry with 33, Williams Rural Fire Protection District with 6 and Wolf Creek Rural Fire Protection District with 3.
Last Sunday around noon, the 9-1-1 Dispatch Center received multiple calls about a grass fire along Interstate 5 in the Sunny Valley area. Three dispatchers were on duty at this time and they received 78 emergency calls within 30 minutes. While dispatchers were answering these calls, they were also dispatching units on the radios, handling other emergency calls for service and processing requests from units in the field.
Over the seven-day period, dispatchers received a total of 486 internal phone calls and they made 617 outbound calls.
