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NEW HANOVER COUNTY -- Responding to emergency calls is about to get easier and safer for crews on Pleasure Island. For a decade the 800-megahertz radio system used by emergency responders has not worked in certain parts of Carolina and Kure Beach.
Tuesday a new tower went up which will solve that problem.
Crews also a put a new building on the site, that is needed to hold the transmitting equipment which will provide better radio coverage for Pleasure Island.
"It's going to be a site that will cover southern end of the county, it's a five channel site, it will be used by all public safety, police, fire and EMS," engineer Bob Hamlin said.
The tower is located near Carolina Beach, a location that is going to cut out the dead spots in the system now.
Emergency crews on the island are happy with the new installation. They say this means each day they work, they will be trusting a bettercommunication system.
"We're certainly excited about new tower and ability to actually talk, we've been real fortunate no one been injured or hurt as a result of the radios," Carolina Beach Fire Chief Brian Roberts said.
For years, it's been difficult for dispatchers to hear crews during emergency calls, or for crews to speak to each other with their radios.
"Right now, basically have a mic, talk here and hold the radio up here. So hopefully, we'll be able to keep radio here and hold the mic the way it was designed for," Roberts said.
After drilling the county for years about the problem emergency responders are finally getting their nearly $9 million upgrade.
This add-on should be up and operating by February 1, but t his is only phase one of the upgrade. The next step is switch over the radio system from analog to digital. Work on that begins in June.
NEW HANOVER COUNTY -- Responding to emergency calls is about to get easier and safer for crews on Pleasure Island. For a decade the 800-megahertz radio system used by emergency responders has not worked in certain parts of Carolina and Kure Beach.
Tuesday a new tower went up which will solve that problem.
Crews also a put a new building on the site, that is needed to hold the transmitting equipment which will provide better radio coverage for Pleasure Island.
"It's going to be a site that will cover southern end of the county, it's a five channel site, it will be used by all public safety, police, fire and EMS," engineer Bob Hamlin said.
The tower is located near Carolina Beach, a location that is going to cut out the dead spots in the system now.
Emergency crews on the island are happy with the new installation. They say this means each day they work, they will be trusting a bettercommunication system.
"We're certainly excited about new tower and ability to actually talk, we've been real fortunate no one been injured or hurt as a result of the radios," Carolina Beach Fire Chief Brian Roberts said.
For years, it's been difficult for dispatchers to hear crews during emergency calls, or for crews to speak to each other with their radios.
"Right now, basically have a mic, talk here and hold the radio up here. So hopefully, we'll be able to keep radio here and hold the mic the way it was designed for," Roberts said.
After drilling the county for years about the problem emergency responders are finally getting their nearly $9 million upgrade.
This add-on should be up and operating by February 1, but t his is only phase one of the upgrade. The next step is switch over the radio system from analog to digital. Work on that begins in June.
