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Report: NY Emergency Radio Network Fails First Major Test

An AP newswire article, via NewsDay.com, reports that:

A $2 billion radio network intended to connect emergency responders throughout the state failed its first major test, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

Buffalo chose to opt out of the system following what officials said were problems so severe that radios did not work in about half of the state's second largest city, the New York Times reported.

"West of the center of the city we had zero reception," said Buffalo Fire Commissioner Michel Lombardo. In the areas that did receive reception, he said, "it sounded like a guy was talking in a tin can."

posted by Fergie @ 12/19/2007 03:20:00 PM