Critical Communication…
Last week I was driving a bus with a local high school track team on board to a scheduled track meet. While I was at the meet, I headed back to bus for a break and found my radio on board was somehow monitoring a lot of emergency vehicle broadcasts and communications. There was apparently severe injuries at an accident scene, and they were trying to get “life flight” choppers into the area, but because of fog and inclement conditions, they were unsuccessful and had to return to base. It’s at times like these, you realize just how dependent we have become on proper communication. …or maybe we haven’t become more dependent – we have just realized that it’s a whole lot better for our health and well-being to have such things as rescue squads, emt’s, or life flight choppers. CB Radios, hand held CB Radios, VHF Radios, and other emergency communication devices such as satellite radios play a very large part keeping us safe and getting help to us in a timely fashion should be be in need of assistance – either on shore or on the water. Emergency personnel were monitoring and relaying information to those who had gotten out of range. It was really kind of fun to be monitoring everyone working together for one single purpose. Happy Boater.