Luzerne County‘s 911 department plans to construct emergency communication towers at two new sites and build a taller one at a third existing location, according to EMS World.
The county currently has 14 tower sites. The proposed new tower sites, 160-to-180 feet, are both on government property. “Our county will have 16 strategically placed towers that get all signals and transmit and receive to all areas,” said county 911 Executive Director Fred Rosencrans told EMS World.
The first is off Harris Pond Road in Ross Township on land the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has agreed to lease to the county at no cost for 25 years, followed by another automatic 25-year renewal and would improve emergency radio coverage in the Back Mountain, Rosencrans said.
The second tower will be 160-to-180 feet and located on Hazleton City Authority property on the Arthur Gardner Highway, he said.
In addition to boosting radio coverage in the Hazleton area, this tower would eliminate 911’s need to rely on an inherited shared tower site on Ninth Street in Hazleton that has been plagued with complaints about radio interference, Rosencrans said to EMS World.
Construction of the Hazleton tower is expected to be bid out in 2018, followed by the Ross Township project, he said.
January 16, 2018
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