Bastrop County’s 911 communications team continues to exceed compliance goals while seeing steady growth in the number of calls. Dawn Adams, the director of the county’s 911 communications department, presented the 911 call statistics for 2019 to the Bastrop County Commissioners Court during their March 9 meeting. The agenda packet included 911 call data from 2011 through January 2020. Adams said the surprising part of the 2019 call statistics is that the total calls to the fire department increased by nearly 24 percent. “We know our fire season, but this one went well into October this year,” she said. “So, what this ...