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In an emergency, every second counts, and in Lehigh County, those seconds have been mounting.
Dispatch times — when a 9-1-1 call is received to when the first crew is dispatched — have grown by an average of two minutes since the June merger of the Lehigh County and Allentown 9-1-1 operations, according to data analyzed by The Morning Call.
Between June 18, the date of the transition, and Oct. 28…
