BOX ELDER COUNTY — With more wildfires flaring up Friday, dispatch centers have been inundated with calls.

Early Friday morning, a new fire sparked in Box Elder County, the Perry Fire.

Over the next three hours, dispatchers received a four to five hundred percent increase in calls, according to Capt. Travis Trotta with the Department of Public Safety Communications.

According to Trotta, out of the 240 calls dispatchers took between six and nine in the morning, 115 were about the Perry fire.

“If every one of those was just one minute, that’s 115 minutes that our guys aren’t talking to officers on the radio,” Trotta said.

There are two dispatchers in Box Elder County on shift. They don’t just take the call, they connect people to first responders.

“We see it from the beginning to when

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