LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Hi-tech communication breakdown
If you stop and look around the fire service today, you might notice that our ability to communicate with each other on the foreground has significantly improved—or has it? With the opening of the UHF-TV frequency band and enhanced trunking of the 800 megahertz band, we have taken the pressure off the VHF band to conduct all our incidents. Now we have cellular phones with fax machines and mobile data terminals that don’t require any voice communication. This ability to “speed up" the dispatching process and transmit more information is seen as a wonderful advancement in safety and technology. Hut are we going too far?
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