Stokes board to decide on emergency dispatch grant

Part of a state project, it speeds up response of emergency personnel

DANBURY (Winston-Salem Journal) - Stokes County has been offered an emergency-medical-dispatch grant that could cut about 30 seconds off its emergency-medical-dispatch time, which is now two minutes, officials said.

The state has issued about $72,000 to Stokes as part of an Emergency Medical Dispatch Enhancement Project, if the county agrees to a 20 percent match of the grant.