Local emergency responders may need new radios in order to keep in touch with Carteret County emergency dispatch.
The Indian Beach Board of Commissioners met for its regular meeting Tuesday at the town hall boardroom on Salter Path Road, with Commissioner Elizabeth “Dale” Williford absent. During the meeting, Police Chief William Pollock and Fire Chief Joshua Haraway informed the board their emergency radios have been having difficulty receiving transmissions from the county’s emergency dispatch service.
“The issue is the distance we’re having to go to get a signal,” Chief Haraway said. The chief said the closest transmission antennae to Indian Beach is in Newport, which is on the mainland to the northeast of the Bogue Banks community.
Chief Pollock said his department is looking into changing their radios to a different model.
“It’s getting to where we thing we’re going to need to go to the county to get something done (about the transmission problem),” he said.