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With only five of the Hawaiʻi County Fire Department’s 16 dispatch positions filled with working full-time employees, it is impossible to fill all 21 weekly 8-hour shifts with more than a lone dispatcher.
Last week, the Hawai‘i County Council’s finance committee unanimously approved $516,735 for the next four years to allow the police, fire and other county departments to access the latest images captured by Pictometry, which does business as Eagle View.