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BILLINGS – It’s not always necessary to dispatch a million-dollar fire truck to a medical call, but that’s the way it has worked in Billings, at least until this week.

The City County Dispatch crew is now working a new computer program to help match the right resources with the needed response.

It’s called priority medical dispatch, and people on the other end of the phone will play an important part in that response…