Amenities
Amenities
Barrow County Emergency Services is the banner under which three divisions of services fall: emergency management, enhanced 911 dispatch and fire and emergency medical services. The agency employs more than 100 full-time and part-time personnel, providing fire and emergency medical services to residents. The agency responded to more than 7,400 incidents in 2009.
Fire and emergency departments include 84 front-line personnel, 15 part-time employees, and three additional staff menbers, all serving the more than 60,000 residents of Barrow County through six emergency response facilities. The department houses six fire engines—three of which are certified as advanced life support units and three as basic life support units—as well as six advanced life support ambulances and one truck company.
Emergency 911 fields emergency and non-emergency calls from residents, dispatching for six different county agencie as well as organizations that provide non-emergency services.
In the event of a natural or man-made disaster, emergency management is responsible for managing county resources, working with state and federal officials to coordinate responses to such incidents.
North Georgia Medical Transport is an ambulatory service. It provides non-emergency stretcher transportation and trained staff with extensive medical knowledge. The service is available for routine doctor visits, cancer management, hospital dismissals and convalescent transportation to social events.
