First responders encourage use of locator app

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First responders encourage use of locator app

MANCHESTER, Vt. (WCAX) - Authorities in southern Vermont are hoping residents will embrace a new app that is designed to help first responders find people in need, faster. Tom Best, with the Manchester Dispatch Center, has worked as a dispatcher for both state and local police departments for over two decades. He says while dispatchers and first responders already have many addresses they can look up, his center is now using the app What3Words t…