Franklin County Commissioners have agreed to spend nearly 14 thousand dollars to install a new repeater in Apalachicola that will help dispatch communicate with the Apalachicola Fire Department and allow firefighters in the city to communicate with one another.
The existing repeater was located at the Apalachicola airport and it went out of service during Hurricane Michael in 2018.
Since then, dispatchers have had to use the State emergency notification system to communicate with the Apalachicola Volunteer Fire Department which has created delays in response time.
The new repeater will be placed on a Verizon Tower in the middle of town which should give it better coverage.
Once the repeater is installed, the Apalachicola Fire Department will have to spend about 27 thousand dollars to purchase and program radios that will work with the new system.
The new repeater for Apalachicola is the first step in having all local volunteer fire departments and the local ambulance service move to the same communication system to streamline the process and make response times shorter.
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