When someone dials 911, it’s the city’s police, fire and Emergency Medical Services departments that respond.

But over the next year, they’ll have to do so with fewer resources.

Although the second-largest chunk of the city’s $1.9 billion budget for the 2009- 10 fiscal year, which starts July 1, will go to public safety, the Beach’s police, fire and EMS units will still have to make sacrifices.

Some vacancies will remain unfilled, new hiring delayed and training and overtime reduced, officials said. Their staff, as well as all other city employees, will go without pay raises.

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