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The radios all worked perfectly on 911. The police could all talk to their dispatcher
and to each other, the firemen could all talk to their dispatcher and to each other,
and the crew of each ambulance could talk to their dispatcher and hospital. All of
their radios worked exactly as they were supposed to work.
But if the police wanted to talk to the firemen, then they had to call their dispatcher,
he had to patch them over through a phone line to the fire dispatcher, who then had to
make the connection to the radio on his end and call the firemen on their radio.
The police could not push a button on their walkie-talkies or in their cars and talk directly
to the fire truck a block away, and neither of them could talk directly to the ambulance
driver in the middle of the block who was trying to find his way through the smoke.
Each public service agency had its own radio system, and there was no direct radio
communication between them, without asking the dispatcher to connect them.
That arrangement always handled the job OK when there was, say, a traffic pile-up
involving 2 or 50 cars, or when there was a fire in a building where a couple of hundred
people live. But it did not provide the "inter-service" communication that everybody
needed when the two largest buildings in New York City were collapsing in the middle of
a work day with thousands of people still inside them.
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