Chatham: Funding comes for long-awaited emergency radio towers

  • Source: Go Dan River.com
  • Published: 09/23/2017 02:18 AM

Local volunteer fire departments are finally seeing the financial wheels turn in favor of their wish for a pair of much-needed radio towers in the county, but it will be more than a year until the construction is finished. The towers have been on the wish list of emergency responders for years, because in some parts of the county firefighters can’t use their radio to call for help from inside a blazing house and sheriff’s deputies can’t call for backup from within a building.



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