WTAEWed, 25 May 2011 06:29 UTC
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Emergency officials in several local counties have called the FCC for help after strange static started interfering with calls on Tuesday afternoon.
Dan Stevens from Westmoreland County Emergency Management said the frequency that Westmoreland, Somerset, Indiana and Fayette County EMS dispatchers has a constant static interference. Stevens said it's affecting the way fire departments are dispatched.
"Something is causing interference. We don't know whether it's a piece of equipment that has malfunctioned somewhere that is causing this or if it's someone maliciously doing this," Stevens said.
Stevens said emergency and ambulance services were not affected by the static.
County emergency officials called the FCC to help find the cause and correct the problem.
Stevens said the four counties have been able to use alternate frequencies to cover about 95 percent of their counties for now.
Comment: Last year, SOTT posted an article (
Case of the US Garage Door Gremlins: San Antonio, Texas balky door openers tied to NSA) about the United States Department of Defense's new state-of-the-art communication system - Land Mobile Radio interfering or hijacking "civilian" frequencies for their unknown purposes and jamming people's garage doors in the process.
Pennsylvania's military bases were ones of the first to start using the system, causing
more than 100 people to contact the local congressman, Republican Rep. Todd Platts, about the problem.
Now we hear about Pennsylvania Firefighters' EMS dispatchers having a strange static interference. And in our opinion, it wouldn't be too outrageous to assume that the source of the interference is of a similar origin.
And just in case enquiring minds want to know more, interestingly enough, Fire Departments of most of the affected counties have the same
EMS frequency:
33.70000 - Fire Dispatch - Westmoreland County Fire (TRS)
33.70000 - Fire Dispatch - Somerset County Fire
33.70000 - Fire Dispatch - Indiana County Fire
155.19000 - Fire Dispatch - Fayette County Fire (TRS)
Another possibility, and considering all the recent
exploding news where Pennsylvania also had its share, we may be dealing with manifestations of a different kind of "interfering" phenomena.
Stay tuned for updates.
Comment: Last year, SOTT posted an article (Case of the US Garage Door Gremlins: San Antonio, Texas balky door openers tied to NSA) about the United States Department of Defense's new state-of-the-art communication system - Land Mobile Radio interfering or hijacking "civilian" frequencies for their unknown purposes and jamming people's garage doors in the process.
Pennsylvania's military bases were ones of the first to start using the system, causing more than 100 people to contact the local congressman, Republican Rep. Todd Platts, about the problem.
Now we hear about Pennsylvania Firefighters' EMS dispatchers having a strange static interference. And in our opinion, it wouldn't be too outrageous to assume that the source of the interference is of a similar origin.
And just in case enquiring minds want to know more, interestingly enough, Fire Departments of most of the affected counties have the same EMS frequency: Another possibility, and considering all the recent exploding news where Pennsylvania also had its share, we may be dealing with manifestations of a different kind of "interfering" phenomena.
Stay tuned for updates.