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Article: Preston fire control room out of date - Government.
- Article from:
- Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England)
- Article date:
- July 8, 2008
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Preston's fire control room is lacking crucial computer equipment needed to respond to emergencies, the government has revealed.
Staff at the Fulwood control room cannot automatically locate their vehicles and lack technology which helps pinpoint the location of mobile phone callers and identify serial hoaxers.
Ministers have published a report which they say proves why Preston's fire control centre should close and all emergency calls shifted to Warrington.
The government is streamlining England's existing 46 local control rooms into a regionalised network of nine centres.
The blueprint will see a "super centre" in Great Sankey, ...