I'll bet Chief Bonnee $100 that his lack of knowledge in communications puts us all in danger

I'll bet Chief Bonnee $100 that his lack of knowledge in communications puts us all in danger and I can prove it if the fire district will send a verification email.

A fire chief needs to have knowledge in a vast number of areas besides firefighting and EMS, especially how communications systems work.

One of Chief Bonnee's main concerns should be communications, especially communications during a major event when cellular systems are overloaded. 

Without communications the fire trucks and firefighters are very limited on what they can do. Their radios would only work radio to radio, basically line of sight without mountain top repeaters.

Without someway to gather information on damages ,who's sick or injured and need help and then disseminate that to outside agencies, so we can't get that help.

It doesn't take much to overload a cellular systems because they're built for normal daily traffic, an earthquake in California or bridge collapse like in Minnesota quickly overloaded their cellular systems making them worthless for first responders. 

BUT the government does have priority phone access for public safety agencies. 

When Chief Bonnee first took over I asked if the station phone and cell phones used by firefighters were registered with WPS the Wireless Priority Service. He ignored me like he did with most communications problems I spoke to him about. 

I'll bet Chief Bonnee $100 that he didn't register his cell phone with the Wireless Priority Service. 

That means in a major disaster rather than having priority access to the cellular system, his chance of making a call on an overloaded system is the same as yours, slim to none...

We Can't bet Lives on an Inexperienced Fire Chief