In chaotic Salina shooting where two cops died, officers struggled to talk by radio

https://www.syracuse.com/news/2024/12/in-chaotic-salina-shooting-where-two-cops-died-officers-struggled-to-talk-by-radio.html

apparently is NY

happened april 2024

nobody can speak the simple truth in the USA anymore - its going to
destroy this country

simple sop would be - patch the 2 channels together - tell everyone
else to shut up or to go to a 2ndary channel

but they did the worse thing possible - they tried to do a patch AND
to move people to 2 different tac channels

yikes

the patching solution would require that radio systems have 99%
coverage up to 5 to 10 miles outside of the borders - that would be no
big deal if there was 1 nationwide system - but there are actually
approx 73,000 public safety radio systems in the usa - since each
agency has their own local channels these days

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question- how many different public safety radio systems are in the
USA? there are 3,000 counties - 30,000 fire departments - 18,000
police agencies - As of February 2024, the United States has 48,384
ground ambulance vehicles. The country also has approximately 1,000
air ambulances.
Here are some other statistics about ambulances in the US:

There are over 23,000 licensed EMS agencies in the US.
There are more than 1.03 million licensed EMS personnel, including
emergency medical technicians and paramedics.
State EMS offices license more than 750 services to fly patients using
helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
Local EMS agencies respond to nearly 28.5 million 911 dispatches each year.