County works to standardize radios

On Tuesday morning, Commissioner Fred Devish kick-started the process of bringing all the emergency response radios in the county in line with one another. The idea, he said, is to standardize radios between fire response, EMS and possibly road and bridge such that they all have the same frequencies assigned to the same channels.

Hoping to “start the ball rolling”, Devish convened representatives from county fire, including Arnie Altaffer, Jerry Boone and Dallas Rolf, as well as Emergency Response Coordinator Will Cunningham, Fire Warden Jeff Garman and Sheriff Jeff Hodge.

Rolf noted that the...