If the recent Washington Metro tunnel fire showed anything, it’s that emergency coordination down under is practically non-existent. Equally missing was interoperable radio communications — something the federal government has deemed essential for emergency response. Federal efforts to improve radio go back at least 20 years. Alan Tilles, chairman of the Telecommunications Department at the law firm Shulman, Rogers, Gandal, Pordy and Ecker, joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to discuss the communications failure.

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