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Norristown Fire Chief Thomas O’Donnell addressed the municipality’s elected officials, staff members and area residents during a virtual session as he requested approvals to purchase a fire hoses and adapters as well as a backup public safety emergency communication system.
With respect to the emergency communications system, O’Donnell told council members that the agency does not have a backup system should an outage occur, and cited an inherent “risk of injury or death” for “public safety personnel” working during a “communications outage…
