New and faster dispatch technology is now getting Santa Barbara Firefighters on the move quicker than ever before.
It went into service this week after years of planning, testing and the evaluation of systems capable of alerting stations and also sending out simultaneous messages to mobile electronic systems.
Battalion Chief Chris Mailes says "instead of a human dispatcher putting a call out which actually takes time, the dispatcher is able to literally with one touch, send the call to each an every fire station that is needed to respond in less than a half a second."
Factors impacting a response involve the 911 emergency call, the response by the fire crews to their vehicles and driving time to the incident. This system will take 30 to 40 seconds off that process.