When an ambulance or a fire truck responds to a call, it might be from another jurisdiction.
Four Rock County fire departments are using technology to dispatch the closest available emergency services vehicle.
The four departments are the City of Beloit, Town of Beloit, City of Janesville, and Milton and Milton Township fire departments.
The technology is a combination of automatic vehicle location (AVL), GPS, computer-aided dispatch and graphical information systems (GIS).
Officials from the four fire departments announced their partnership Jan. 20 during a press conference at the Rock County 911 Communications Center. The departments began using automatic vehicle location technology the week prior, said Dan Pease, interim fire chief for the Beloit Fire Department.