[Outages-discussion] Why not to label fiber-optic cables "High Voltage"

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Coy Hile <Coy.Hile at coyhile.com> wrote:
> I'll go so far as to say that it was reprehensible that at the very least dispatch not have this sort of information, even if the incident commander on the fireground didn't happen to have it  on him.

The smaller towns in MA have a long, proud, tradition of a high
percentage of volunteer fire fighting.  While all the fire fighters
(professional and volunteer) have demonstrated competency,
I have to wonder if the town has quite the depth of contact
information that (a department like) FDNY has.  Does the
town out-source dispatch to a larger organization, or do a
set of local communities share a (still small) dispatch unit?
Details matter before one can draw conclusions.

Gary