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May 16—Emergency dispatchers returned to Astoria last week after temporarily merging with Seaside over the past several months.
The move to Seaside was prompted by staffing shortages at Astoria’s 911 dispatch center, which reached a critical point last fall. The merger, ideally, should have been a flip of the switch, but instead it exposed deficiencies in technology and interoperability that left many emergency responders on the North Coast frustrated…
