Today, the Woodacre fire dispatch center sits empty. Penned schedules on whiteboards have been mostly erased, chairs pushed aside. Its computers are gathering dust, and its phones are quiet. Until late June, this 80-year-old, wood-paneled building, nestled in a residential neighborhood of Woodacre, was the nerve center for 911 calls in Marin County.
As part of a comprehensive modernization plan, dispatch operations were relocated this summer to a newly established, countywide emergency command center in…