華盛頓首都警方 全市無線電死火數小時

華盛頓首都警方 全市無線電死火數小時
DC Police Radios Down Citywide For Hours
消防、環境管理人霆要用後備無線電系統
Fire, EMS crews had to use backup radio system
Updated: Tuesday, 30 Mar 2010, 8:41 AM EDT
Published : Monday, 29 Mar 2010, 8:26 PM EDT

By MYFOXDC STAFF/myfoxdc

WASHINGTON, D.C. - D.C. Police sources tell FOX 5 that radio communications were down citywide in the District Monday night for several hours. Police officers on the street had no way to receive or respond to calls via radio. The problem was resolved around 1:00 a.m. Tuesday morning.
華盛頓首都 - 首都警方消息人士告訴霍士5，週一晚全市的無線電通訊死火幾個小時，在街上的警務人員沒有辦法透過無線電接收或覆話。問題在星期二上午1時左右得到解決。
Sources tell FOX 5 that communication went down sometime around 7:15 p.m. on Monday night. That source also told FOX 5's Will Thomas that officers in the field had no way to respond to calls from dispatch via radio.

Some officers were returning to headquarters, and some were being asked to communicate by cell phone while the outage is investigated and repaired. The D.C. Office of Unified Communication is working on the issue, but there's no word what caused it.
有些人員返回總部，和一些人被要求用手機通訊，而運行中斷會被調查和修復。直流統一通信辦公室正就這一問題工作，但沒有解釋它是什麼導致。
Sources tell FOX 5 that it's possible the issue was related to a generator problem at the McMillan Drive facility.
消息人仕告訴霍士5，問題有可能與麥克米蘭道的發電機問題有關。
At 10 p.m. Monday, radios were still down, but sources said the in-car computers used by officers were beginning to come back up.
星期一晚上10點，無線電仍死火，但消息人士說官員使用的車內電腦已開始復原。
Fire crews' radio equipment was affected as well, according to police sources. D.C. Fire and EMS spokesman Pete Piringer said the system went down but their crews immediately switched over to a backup system, so fire crews are able to respond to 911 calls. Piringer says they are using frequencies from Montgomery and Arlington Counties during the outage, and they are using mobile and portable radios and alternate channels.

Piringer called the transition almost seamless.

Piringer stressed that if a resident calls 911, fire crews will get the call. He said the public should not notice any changes when it comes to D.C. Fire and EMS response.

A police union spokesperson told FOX 5 this may not be the first time the radio system has gone down in the last month.
http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/local/dc-police-radios-down-outage-032910