that this is a multi jurisdictional area, chances are you probably want to communicate with alexandria or washington, d.c. or fairfax. were you able to do that as well? >> absolutely. we have a phone system called the washington area warning alert system. it is a secure system where you basically patella on and it -- it basically pick up a telephone and you can speak to all the national been jurisdictions including the federal government. so we do that. we have automated systems. we have a web based program that we used to enter data and make resources requests. so we do have other methods other than typical telephones. we also have ham radio operators. if everything goes down, i have these great amateur radio folks to come in an exercise all the time. they love doing what they do, and we just love having them. >> given all those different systems, why is a d-block dedicated to public safety necessary? >> that is the hard primary system, and i think we need it for our use. the other systems of talking about are really support systems, if you will. we don't want to have to depend on ham radio operato

that this is a multi jurisdictional area, chances are you probably want to communicate with alexandria or washington, d.c. or fairfax. were you able to do that as well? >> absolutely. we have a phone system called the washington area alert system so we can communicate with each other and it's a secure system where you basically take up a telephone and you can speak over the net to all the capital jurisdictions including the federal government infected sexually hosted by the federal government so we do that. we have automated systems and a web based program that we use to enter data and the resource request for the practitioners out there so we do have other methods other than the typical telephones. we also have the radio operators and the base stations at every fire house as well as the office of emergency management so if everything goes down i have these great radio folks that, and they do stuff and the drill and exercise all the time and they love doing what they do and we just love having them. >> given the different systems what is the d block dedicated to the public safety? >> i think that is

this is a multijurisdictional area, chances are you probably wanted to communicate with alexandria or washington, d.c. or fairfax. were you able to do that as well? >> guest: absolutely, absolutely. we have a phone system called the washington area warning alert system. so we can communicate with each other, and it's a secure system where you, basically, pick up telephone, and you can speak over the net to all the national capital region jurisdictions including the federal government. in fact, it's actually hosted by the federal government. so we do that. we have automated systems. we have a web-based program that we use to enter data and to make resource requests, it's called web eoc for the practitioners out there. so we do have other methods other than the typical telephones. we also have ham radio operators. we have base stations in the every arlington firehouse as well as my office at the office of emergency management, so if everything goes down, i've got these great amateur radio folks that come in, they staff, they drill, they exercise all the time, and they love doing what they do, and

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