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101 POLICE, FIRE, RESCUE SERVICE I. QUALITATIVE DATE Police protection is provided by the Orange County Sheriff' s Department. Fire protection is provided by seven volunteer fire departments: Hillsborough. Eno. Orange Grove, New Hope. White Cross (Eli Whitney) . South Orange, and North Chatham. Rescue service is provided by Orange County and South Orange Rescue Squads. Emergency services are dis- patched through a central dispatch center. Service requests for all emergency services are made by dialing "911". II. QUANTITATIVE DATA The Orange County Sheriff' s Department serves the entire unincorporated portion of Orange County. Its main office is in Hillsborough and a satellite office has- been established in Chapel Hill. There are five patrol districts in the County. The rural buffer lies predominantly in one patrol district. Portions along the northern and western edges of the buffer are in other districts. A patrol car is assigned to each district. From one to three additional patrol cars will be assigned to supplement the regular patrol cars in the evenings and on weekends. • The service areas of the seven volunteer fire depart- ments are located in the rural buffer. Only two fire sta- tions are physically located in the rural buffer area. These are the two New Hope Fire District stations located on NC 86 and Whitfield Road. Other fire stations are located outside the rural buffer. One, the North Chatham Fire District station. is located in Chatham. with the exception of South Orange where service is provided by the Town of Carrboro. each department is respon- sible for its own district. A unit will not leave its district except at the request of another district. All units are dispatched from the central emergency center. The two rescue squads serve nights and weekends. A paid service provides for weekdays. There are two rescue units in each squad. One Orange County Rescue unit is stationed in Hillsborough on South Churton. The second unit is stationed in Efland. The South Orange Rescue Squad stations one unit at Roberson Street in Carrboro and the other at Fire Station #3 on Elliott Drive in Chapel Hill. There is no designated service area for either squad. When both units in one squad are busy. a unit from the other squad will go to Blackwood Station on NC 86 to take up a standby service position. All units are dispatched from the central emergency center.