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Pitt County directs staff to draft reciprocal radio-ID agreements with neighboring counties
Summary
After an extended discussion about firefighter radio interoperability and mutual aid, the Pitt County Board of Commissioners directed emergency management to prepare agreements to exchange radio IDs with contiguous counties, waiving the $15 monthly subscriber fee in exchange for like-kind reciprocity and limiting issued IDs to six per department.
The Pitt County Board of Commissioners on Nov. 3 directed the county's emergency management department to prepare reciprocal agreements allowing out-of-county fire departments in contiguous counties to use Pitt County radio IDs to improve on-scene communications during mutual-aid responses.
The action, approved after more than 30 minutes of technical briefing and public comment from local chiefs, stipulates that each outside department that accepts radio IDs will purchase and program its own radios and, in exchange for an equal transfer of IDs, will be exempt from the $15 monthly subscriber fee. The board set a tentative limit of six radio IDs per requesting department and asked staff to return draft interlocal agreements for formal approval.
County emergency management staff…
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