GRANGEVILLE — Emergency calls to the Idaho County Sheriff’s Office have skyrocketed over the past three years because of the continued growing population, a communications officer reported Tuesday.
Mandee Mignerey, communications supervisor for the sheriff’s office, said the communications center — which dispatches for the sheriff’s office, Grangeville and Cottonwood city police, Idaho Fish and Game Department, U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management law enforcement, 12 EMS responders and 17 fire departments within the county — received 22,694 total emergency calls in 2021. That was an increase of 36.8% from 2019, an average of more than 62 emergency calls per day. In 2019, the average was 45 per day… READ MORE
