A communications outage left San Juan County Dispatch unable to hail Orcas Island Fire and Rescue personnel for several minutes during a double search and rescue effort on Mount Constitution Saturday night. The OIFR frequency went down following a power outage while rescue crews were on the mountainside attempting to locate a total of three people lost in two separate areas. Shortly before losing communications an additional call went out for fire personnel to respond to a residential carbon monoxide alarm. During the outage, first responders had no way of communicating with Dispatch or each other about search efforts or the need for request resources for any of the emergency scenes; nor did OIFR first responders know if additional 9-1-1 calls were coming in. Most emergency scenes require complex coordination of personnel, equipment, apparatus and other resources.