County supervisors vote to explore dispatch center consolidation

SAN DIEGO – The San Diego County Board of Supervisors voted May 8, to explore a possible consolidation of the region’s five public safety dispatch centers.

County and city of San Diego officials have long considered merging the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department, North County Dispatch, Heartland Communications, Escondido and Cal Fire and County Fire dispatch centers. North County Dispatch and Heartland, in particular, are both “bursting at the seams and actively planning for replacement facilities,” according to a county report.

“Consolidating our five dispatch centers in the region has been tal...