The Roscoe Volunteer Fire Department said that Sweetwater's emergency dispatchers are not notifying them of emergencies and they have posted their concerns about the situation on social media.
The Roscoe Volunteer Fire Department's Assistant Fire Chief Robert Hoffman posted a message on Facebook that he called a public service announcement, saying that the Sweetwater dispatchers, "will not page or notify the Roscoe Volunteer Fire Department anymore of any emergencies, but it would be [at] the discretion of the shift on-duty."
"We're not notified, we hear radio traffic of something and find out that there's something going on in our area," said Hoffman.
Hoffman claims that it has been like this for years and he said that Roscoe's public safety is in jeopardy if the Roscoe Volunteer Fire Department is not getting notified of emergency calls in their jurisdiction, which all go through Sweetwater's dispatchers first.