The Orange County Fire Rescue Department is attempting to reduce response times with a new GPS technology that uses locations of its vehicles to dispatch firefightersThe department started using Automatic Vehicle Location for dispatch in June to make its operations more efficient, Fire Rescue Chief Otto Drozd III said.
“As our vehicles are in transit and a call comes in, we match the resource to the need,” Drozd told Orange County commissioners during a meeting last month. “That’s going to make us much more efficient in our response times, but ultimately it’s going to save lives within the community because we can get there much, much quicker.” .