[Scan-DC] New Radio Encryption May Have Stymied Communication in Metro Incident

[Andrew Clegg]

>From the NBC-4 news site:
http://goo.gl/PBPUml
D.C. firefighters and emergency responders may not have been able to communicate with Metro officials during last week's fatal L'Enfant Plaza smoke incident because of recent changes to a communications control room in Northwest D.C., according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.
The D.C. Fire Department recently made a move to encrypt its radio transmissions, meaning only agencies that know how to tap into the encrypted network can communicate with D.C. Fire and EMS units.
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