Dispatch Center

So, I just found out the other day that I now got hired on full-time by St Johnsbury Emergency Dispatch! I've been working there part-time for about three years now, and an opening came up that allowed me to get a consistent 40 hours per week. This is another step for me, on my way to accomplishing my goals.

Now, in St Johnsbury, we have a fairly small dispatching center. In fact, it only has two consoles. Here is a picture of the main dispatching desk:

As you can see, there is a lot, squished into a tiny space. Now, let's compare that, with our "back-up" dispatching room, located in Lyndonville.

Notice that is seems much cleaner, and slightly more space than our St Johnsbury center. There has been some discussion on remodeling the current room, or even creating a new Public Safety building. However, the way the economy is, that isn't about to happen in the immediate future.

St Johnsbury Dispatch services over a dozen fire departments, a couple ambulance squads, and also a few first response agencies, coupled with a local police department.

Here is an idea for the agencies:

And this is what the console actually looks like, for radio channels:

Most Fire/EMS lives in northern Caledonia county and parts of Essex county revolves their lives around those buttons. And it's always that one or two people on duty that makes that happen. I'm proud to be able to provide such a service to these people!