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FAYETTE, Iowa (KWWL) – The city of Oelwein no longer has its own 911 dispatch center. The Fayette County Sheriff’s Office now handles all emergency calls for the entire county.
“Actually I think it’s going very smooth,” Fayette County Sheriff Marty Fisher said.
Dispatchers have been taking calls from Oelwein since June. There are seven full-time employees that will soon turn into nine.
Adding Oelwein, one of the largest cities in the county has doubled the workload for dispatchers at the county level.
“We saw probably here, for Fayette County, would be about 2,500 emergency calls. Oelwein and their dispatch had approximately 2,300,” Sheriff Fisher said…
