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Barbara Boxer: “Almost three years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, thousands of police and fire divisions in cities and counties…”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2004
Almost three years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, thousands of police and fire divisions in cities and counties across the USA still do not have coordinated communications capabilities. This unresolved national crisis--referred to as a lack of ``interoperability''--is prompting the First Response Coalition to reach out directly to more than 43,000 local police and fire officials to solicit their help to get Congress to overturn the Nextel spectrum grab in favor of a plan that deals both with the interference problem and the interoperability crisis.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Addressing the lack of coordinated communications for first responders nearly three years after 9/11.

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