During operations Collett Ridge fire dispatch lost Communications with all resources and aviation resources due to the continuing failure of the Radio system at the Dispatch center and Nantahala National forest (Tusquitee) Joanna Repeater and still is only working off and on at this time, Also on the Nantahala the Cowee and Wine springs repeaters were affected with the outage while on initial attack operations in the same area where cell coverage was not available due to location of the new fires and once again caused safety issues with responding resources and on scene resources on both incidents
Note: This is still an on going issue that effects safety of the resources and aviation resources |