ROCKEFELLER ROUNDTABLE Top Safety Minds Talk Communication With Senator Rockefeller
Reported by: Gilbert Corsey
Videographer: John Tincher
Web Producer: Gilbert Corsey
Also Contributing: Charles Minimah
Reported: Sep. 9, 2010 11:50 PM EDT
Updated: Sep. 10, 2010 1:10 AM EDT
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The top safety minds in the state converged in the Capital City Thursday to talk about better communication in emergency situations.
Senator Jay Rockefeller moderated the roundtable on his public safety spectrum and wireless innovation act. Rockefeller said It's a new bill designed to get fire, EMS, deputies, police and other emergency agencies on one airwave space so they can use their radios and equipment to talk outside of their respective home bases.
It comes after years of trouble communicating in disasters like flooding in the southern coalfields. Sissonville Volunteer Fireman Tom Miller said, " When your outside your jurisdiction and you have no cell service and no radio it's like your going blind.
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Gilbert Corsey
