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Article: Sept. 11 emergency responders never heard radio retreat warnings. This technology might have helped save them.(Front)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 18, 2006
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Byline: TIM MCGLONE
BY TIM McGLONE
THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Five years before New York City firefighters failed to hear radio retreat calls as they climbed the World Trade Center towers, two Chesapeake firefighters died inside an auto parts store as flames and heat quickly consumed the building.
Their radio rescue calls went unheard by their colleagues outside.
Ten years after that tragedy and nearly five years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, emergency responders throughout much of the country still cannot communicate across jurisdictions nor often within their own agencies.
The technology exists to fix the problem, ...