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First Responders Better Prepared With New Radio Technology
(NAPS)—Shortly after the first plane hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, police on the scene issued an urgent radio call for evacuation of the entire complex.
That order, given on a radio frequency used by one group of officials, was never heard by many other first responders on the scene. Just minutes later, the second plane hit the South Tower.
As noted in “The 9/11 Commission Report,” the call to evacuate was “given over WTC channel W,” a frequency used by only some of the scene’s first responders. As a result, the lifesaving evacuation message went unheard by many— and for some, arrived too late.
Americans learned many lessons from the tragic events of September 11.
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