| Judging from the 9-11 hearings and many reports | | | | to keep them from spreading it until you can |
| by first responder organizations for increased | | | | deliver the medicine.In reading this report:First |
| needs during major catastrophic events or | | | | Response Communications Are Critical to U.S. |
| INTERNATIONAL Terrorism Attacks of | | | | Terrorism |
| communications, it appears that the average | | | | Strategy. In this article, the operations chief for |
| citizenry with personal needs will also need their | | | | all federal response assets at Ground Zero talks |
| personal communication available to contact family | | | | about the future of standards-based interoperable |
| members, make arrangements for travel, etc. If | | | | communications.It explains the excessive needs |
| First Responders soak up all available | | | | for communication to repsonders as the size of |
| communication lines, methods, frequencies then | | | | the event is bigger. The larger the crisis the more |
| the people effected will not have their needed | | | | communication which is needed. In the 9-11 |
| communications.Yet we must understand that if | | | | attacks there were condemnation for the |
| the citizens tie up all available civilian lines such as | | | | unprepared nature of the communication chain by |
| cell phone towers then the First Reponders once | | | | loved ones who had lost family members.A |
| maxed out will have to take control of those | | | | system could be put in place that limited cell |
| communication systems for official use. This will | | | | phone calls to 2 minutes, by use of a recording |
| cause immediate chaos as people become | | | | that explained that the limit for phone call was 2 |
| hysterical and ordinary people attempt to do | | | | minutes and that there is a restriction to more |
| things which they would never normally do, such | | | | than two phone calls every 10 minutes. Thus this |
| as run a road block with their cars in order to get | | | | might solve the issue of having to turn off public |
| to loved ones. This is also a real problem if you | | | | use of the cell phones system for use by only |
| need to isolate people who may have been | | | | first responders, which could cause mass hysteria |
| exposed to biological weapons, becuase you need | | | | and worsen the problems. |