[Scan-DC] Firefighter radios did not work in tunnel dur ing Metro smoke incident ·

[Jeff Krauss]

Presumably this means that the portable radios 
could not reach the base station.
Don't they have simplex channels for portable-to-portable comms for that case?


At 05:54 PM 1/13/2015, FiveAlarm Photography wrote:
>*Sources: Firefighter radios did not work in 
>tunnel during Metro smoke incident* · 
>o    *Updated: Jan 13, 2015 3:48 PM EST* *By 
>MyFoxDC.com Web Producer* WASHINGTON -Two 
>sources with knowledge of Monday's smoke 
>incident on Metro tell FOX 5 that firefighter 
>radios did not work inside the smoky tunnel near 
>the L'Enfant Plaza station. Those sources tell 
>FOX 5 antennas inside tunnel were not working 
>and had not been for several days. Because of 
>that outage, they say firefighters used line of 
>sightcommunication 
><http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/27840370/sources-firefighter-radios-metro#> 
>in the tunnel and cell phones to get information 
>out. 
>http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/27840370/sources-firefighter-radios-metro 
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